William Butler Yeats Quotes, Byzantium Quotes, Bird Quotes

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

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Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Bird Quotes , Natural Quotes

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

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The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

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