Quote by Octavio Paz

“When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”

— Winston Churchill

“We live without feeling the country beneath our feet, our words are inaudible from ten steps away. Any conversation, however brief, gravitates, gratingly, toward…

— Osip Mandelstam

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the great limp…

— Aimé Césaire

“Having completed that emotional collapse, I next bounce off a little vision-quest right as the steady drumbeat accelerates into the Fearing Time: desert monuments…

— Randolph Crowley

“Feature the good culture to never be like the vulture that doesn't have a good posture in the picture, the structure you make from…

— Elijah Onyenmeriogu

“various marvels concerning parrots, and mines, and Mexicans,”

— Charles Dickens

“a rafter of turkeys, a murder of crows, an exaltation of larks… an unkindness of ravens.”

— Margaux Gillis

“Each Whining Thing (1929) When stripèd snakes shall creep upon us And the nervous screams of birds Make silent all the fountains and the…

— Paul Bowles

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other…

— Tor Udall

“In his comfortable coffin, face veiled in dark silk, eyes open or closed, Pan Loudermilk lies waiting, a player from a tribe never stilled…

— Kathe Koja

“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic…

— Earle Birney