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Birds8 quotes
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain. — Colleen McCullough · 1977Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949A bird does not sing
because he has an answer.
He sings
because he has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund · 1967Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BCWhen a pair of magpies fly together
They do not envy the pair of phoenixes. — Lady Ho · 300 BCAll 8 quotes →Bird songs3 quotes
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain. — Colleen McCullough · 1977Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949A bird does not sing
because he has an answer.
He sings
because he has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund · 1967Animals1 quote
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BCContentment1 quote
When a pair of magpies fly together
They do not envy the pair of phoenixes. — Lady Ho · 300 BCElegance of nature1 quote
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793Facing death1 quote
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BCHuman potential1 quote
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793Limitations and constraints1 quote
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793Loneliness1 quote
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949Nature1 quote
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793Nature scene1 quote
We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant. — Dorothy Wordsworth · 1803Poetry1 quote
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds. — Archibald MacLeish · 1926Satisfaction1 quote
When a pair of magpies fly together
They do not envy the pair of phoenixes. — Lady Ho · 300 BCSelf-expression1 quote
A bird does not sing
because he has an answer.
He sings
because he has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund · 1967Swans1 quote
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BC