Bird Quote by Steve Burrows

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Many days passed before we could speak to the Golden One again. But then came the day when the sky turned white, as if…

— Ayn Rand

“I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, dwindled and thinned to…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass…

— Herman Melville

“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill. It rose…

— W.B. Yeats

“At the edge of the lot, wildflowers had taken over, forming a thick border. I stopped to pick a bouquet of gold buttercups and…

— Mary Simses

“Out in Saxe-Coburg Street she stood still for a moment and looked at the gardens. He kissed me, she thought. He made the move;…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“in the mountains the cherry trees were in full bloom, and the farther he went, the lovelier the veils of mist became, until for…

— Murasaki Shikibu

“Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine.”

— Lynne Branard

“When he marched to the altar, all the women in smart hats leaned away from the aisle, their long strands of pearls all swaying…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.”

— Heinrich Heine

“Hurriedly then he donned his magical sword in its wide scabbard of leather; and with scanty provisions hastened over the fields, after the last…

— Lord Dunsany