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Bird Quotes - Page 23

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart.

George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.121, Univ of North Carolina Press

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.137, Penguin

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt