"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries
taste."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A Robin
Redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage."
--William Blake
"A bird
does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has
a song."
--Chinese Proverb
"No bird
soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
--William Blake
"The very
idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird
seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense
his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace,
masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human
aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and
how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!"
--John Burroughs
"Those
little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious
ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of
art."
--Izaak Walton
