Attention Quote by Mary Oliver

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also…

— Iain Banks

“I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of…

— Theodore Roethke

“Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to…

— Mark Twain

“I will fly away to them, to the royal birds, and they will beat me, because I, that am so ugly, dare to come…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his…

— James Joyce

“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”

— Amit Ray

“I seemed to be walking on and on forever through a peaceful, languid garden of rice paddies. This was no longer the territory of…

— Michio Takeyama

“Until he found that bird, life would remain gray and bleak, illogical, without purpose; every seagull would remain a coincidental collection of blood and…

— Richard Bach

“The sun goes down and the sky reddens, pain grows sharp, light dwindles. Then is evening when jasmine flowers open, the deluded say. But…

— Anonymous

“Whether the scouring, sexless eye of the bird or beast of prey disperses and sees all or concentrates and evades all saving that for…

— Mervyn Peake

“Urgent Story" When the oracle said, ‘If you keep pigeons you will never lose home.’ I kept pigeons. They flicked their red eyes over…

— Tess Gallagher