Air Quote by Peter Ackroyd

The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“There’s a beauty in birds on the wing, That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures Long for flight, but the larks above the…

— Charles Todd

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

— Margaux Gillis

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless…

— Rafael Sabatini

“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

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random, and vulgar.…

— Robert Lowell

“But it is the personal synthesis of elements taken from a wide variety of historical styles and periods that most strongly links the church…

— Alain Frogley

“For a breathtaking moment; I spoke the language of the fleeing leaves When the sky is shrouded in darkness Of incoming Ravens in black…

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“It is an effort to descend down the hand-holds of memory to the plain beneath, to recall the lost future, the dusk hovering above…

— J.A. Baker

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous