Bird Quote by James Stephens

“A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.”

James Stephens

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“Even the wind had ceased, and there seemed to be nothing in the world but the darkness and himself. In that gigantic blackness, in that unseen quietude and vacancy, the mind could cease to be personal to itself. It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for…

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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

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The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

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A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to…

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“The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.”

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A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

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“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.”

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I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

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Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be,…

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Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by…

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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

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And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found…

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When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should…

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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

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