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Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings -- Anne Sexton
Raven." There was a long pause as Ronan regarded his hand. "Maybe a crow. But I doubt it. I ... yeah, seriously doubt it. Corvus corax."
Even drunk, Ronan knew the Latin name for the common raven. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! -- John Milton
The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight. -- Roberto Bolano
A little roving, solitary thing. -- Charlotte Bronte
Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while. -- Bill Vaughan
Is that a crow I hear, calling the raven black? -- George R R Martin
invasion by night -- B.z. Kelly
Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love -- Megan Mccafferty
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary. -- Graham Swift
I am a cage, in search of a bird. -- Franz Kafka
Dark Star Safari, -- Amanda Lindhout
Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight -- Kathryn Lasky
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free. -- John Mcleod
I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly. -- John Denver
Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away? -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me. -- P.c. Cast
My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen. -- Anne Mccaffrey
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him. -- Charles Bukowski
What bird are you calling?' I ask, finally, when I can't stand it any longer. The bird man stops whistling. He grins, so that I can see all his pebbly teeth. He holds out a hand to me over the broth-thin water. 'You. -- Karen Russell
I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly. -- David Archuleta
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. -- William Shakespeare
O lyric love! half angel half bird -- Robert Browning
Not an angel of the air,
Bird melodious or bird fair,
Be absent hence! -- William Shakespeare
Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that's even darker. -- George R R Martin
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Little birds fly through many a dark tunnel. -- George R R Martin
What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [ ... ] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing. -- Rachel Vincent
Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun. -- Robert Hunter
Then came night
that was like falling water.
At times, for hours,
a bird spirit,
half buzzard, half swan,
just above the rushes
from which a snow-storm howls. -- Peter Huchel
There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out. -- Charles Bukowski
I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war? -- Tom Springfield
A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives. -- Edwin Way Teale
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end. -- Cormac Mccarthy
Phoenix, n.
The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.' -- Ambrose Bierce
The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back. Fly, boy, fly! -- Alberto Granado
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren -- Anne Sexton
Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control. -- David Attenborough
Oh, what is that bird?'
'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times. -- Patrick O'brian
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan. -- Juvenal
A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another. -- Alexander Mccall Smith
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Who will not change a raven for a dove? -- William Shakespeare
Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series -- James Patterson
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. -- Wallace Stevens
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening -- Matsuo Basho
A warbler singing - somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket -- Matsuo Basho
Everybody wants to fly. At some stage in their lives, everyone looks up in the sky and sees the seemingly effortlessness of a bird in the gulf of air overhead and thinks: I wish, just one time, that could be me. -- Charlie Fletcher
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. -- Henry James
Did you know that baby,
You're the bluebird in my sky,
I only want to make you happy
Because I love you see you fly -- Nick Carter
All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing -- Mary Oliver
What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane. -- Lev Grossman
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? -- Philip K. Dick
...words--
a flock of birds in a tree
at nightfall. -- Cassiano Ricardo
When the shadows shroud the woods,
And the mountains are empty and bare;
I am flying with the crow ... -- Stephan Attia
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. -- Jean Genet
ANGEL: I I I I
Am the Bird of America, the Bald Eagle,
Continental Principality,
LUMEN PHOSPHOR FLUOR CANDLE! -- Tony Kushner
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird? -- David Attenborough
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies. -- William Ernest Henley
And the crow once called the raven black. -- George R R Martin
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens. -- Louise Erdrich
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment
the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country
no bluebird in spring! -- John Burroughs
Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him -- Kenneth Wapnick
(The) Gray wagtail ... doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire. -- Anthony Doerr
It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest. -- John Heywood
Bird of the sky
still bound to the earth,
soaring to unimaginable heights
yet returning to perch in the willow.
Death is near, always near
and so...is life
even in the ashes.
Rise Up Phoenix.
Live. Fly. Create! -- Michele Jennae
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord. -- Guru Nanak
nocturnal purple. -- Neil Gaiman
A critter reveals his true self at midnight. -- W.h. Beck
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? -- William Wordsworth
Birding to Change the World, -- Anonymous
My beloved jay, give me a name now. call out the name you give me, looking into the deepest place in your heart. Everytime you call my name, I'll fly to you and be your wings. -- Ilchi Lee
My wings are always black. -- Rachel Wade
red-hot fireflies -- Cameron Dokey
Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long -- Irving Berlin
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below. -- John Clare
The crow calls the raven black. -- George R R Martin
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. -- Hesiod
How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky. -- Antero Alli
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. -- Charlotte Bronte
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep. -- Lauren Destefano
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!
The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze
His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;
Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees;
And birds of morning trim their bustling wings,
And listen fondly
while the Blackbird sings. -- Frederick Tennyson
Midnight glided across the landscape like a velvet bat. -- Terry Pratchett
What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach. -- Eleanor Morse
This is a low flying person -- Paul Keating
I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man -- Jim Morrison
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 a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market! -- Marie Corelli
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive. -- Dean Potter
I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound. -- David Letterman
Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call. -- P.c. Cast
I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night! Smile -- Walt Whitman
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A sparrow's heart beats four hundred and sixty times a minute. A man's, just seventy-eight. But sometimes, at night, my heart approached sparrow speed. This happened when the darkness crept into my bed and wrapped itself around my feet. -- Jenny Offill
Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. - RAYMOND CARVER -- Catherine Mckenzie
