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"If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song.""
"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens."
"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."
"Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly."
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
"It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness."
"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror."
"I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back."
"Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage."
"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir"
"Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet."
"Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky."
"My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name."
"You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest."
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
"Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late."
"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"
"I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love."
"Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love."
"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
