Quote by William Shakespeare

“We have a friend, and Anglophile American city-dweller in his eighties, whose main ambition, now, is to hear a cuckoo call, for he never…

— Susan Hill

“A Cuckoo should never dance and a Peacock should not try to sing! (Acknowledge all the troubles and failures in our lives.)”

— Sudha Murty

“But at a certain stage of prosperity, as in a balloon ascent, the fortunate person passes through a zone of clouds, and sublunary matters…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not a face; this is the other part of…

— Mary Oliver

“In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with the quick…

— Chris Cleave

“It flew away, whatever it was, and now he squinted up and remembered that it was the first time in a long spell he…

— Wilfrido D. Nolledo

“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could not find…

— Rollo May

“Although His eye is on the sparrow, I know He watches over me”

— Sarah Dosher

“His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has “seen it all before.”

— Herman Koch

“Here was the same murmuring quiet, broken only by an occasional whisper, the faint thud of a librarian stamping books or overdue notices, the…

— Stephen King

“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of…

— Joseph Conrad

“Creatures perish in the darkened blind of quest, knowing intimations. Guessing and dreaming they pursue the real, faces turned toward the sky whispering secrets…

— Mansur al-Hallaj