Best bird & clouds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”

Light Song Company Tree Wind Moon Eternal Bird Shadow Lonely Clouds Lonely Trees

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.”

Source: The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry

“All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.”

Gone Mountain Bird Lonely Clouds Tire Floats

Author:Li Bai

“Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.”

Firsts Heart Left Heaven Grows Higher My Heart Spring Bird Filled Rose Clouds Deeper Eagles Flew Larks

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.”

“I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air.Pull me by string and horse.Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat.I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains.I'm going to move my hand today.I vomit ice cubes.There's a ghost next to me.Get up, Dad.(Light Boxes)”

“As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.”

Kind Imagination Watches Sky Bird Clouds Snow Rainbow Feathers Bluebird

Book:Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel

Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel

“In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.”

People Ifs Sometimes Age School Left Church Behinds Wonder Sky Bird England Moved Raised Clouds Eight Distraction Kites Methodists

Author:Matthea Harvey

“When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.”

Firsts Looks Black Morning Bird Window Wake Up Clouds Ledges

Author:Saul Williams

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”

Has Beens Sometimes Bird Clouds Woods Variety Wild Birds

Author:Carl Sandburg

“This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.”

Growing Bird Clouds Disappear Autumn Growing Old

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.”

Space Taught Wind Wall Bird Garden Clouds Dust Thirst Epiphany Minerals Lizards Tedium Puncture

Book:A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

Source: A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

“He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.”

Felt Perfect Becoming Eternal Bird Clouds Bones Flesh Dust No Fear Equilibrium Luminous Moths Hummingbirds Dragonflies

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight.”

Littles Two Moments Use Light Able Together Tree Tears Flower Bird Clouds Atoms New Life Floating Specks Fantasy Books Sunbeams Pine Trees Literary Love Dragonflies His Dark Materials

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

Moments Light Faces Fall Sound Tears Kissing Lows Bird Garden Window Blessed Clouds Flying Adam Strokes Gathering Bird Flying

Author:Jenny Downham

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!”

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.”

Ends Moments Fall Language Water Wind Shapes Singing Bird Understood Clouds That Moment Sunlight Fountain Beginnings And Ends Ged

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”

“What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.”

World Want Feels Humans Heart Play Home Body Pain Special Tears My Heart Empathy Bird Balls Victim Clouds Jew Corners Wretched Ghetto Rubber Plantations

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.”

Source: Nature and Other Writings

“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”

Bird Clouds Bars Curious Glances Soar Cages Restless Vivid Intervals Captives Resolute

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."”

“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?”

“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.”

“My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.”

Heart Eye Song Found Lost Stars Morning Sky My Heart Bird Lonely Let Me Wings Depth Clouds Spread Kingdoms Sunshine Wilderness Soar Cradle Immensity

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!”

Problem Differences Common Attitude Bird Rain Clouds Flying Shelter Eagles Above The Clouds

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest; And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night.”

World Looks Light Night Heaven Black Gone Late Bird Shadow Tasks Hot West Clouds Sheep Weary Coal Folds Nests Good Night Owl Comforter Goodnight Gait Black Clouds

Book:Poems: Third Series

Source: Poems: Third Series

“Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.”

Long Body Light Song Path Air Bird Shots Wings Clouds Golden Autumn Hung Insects Dragonflies

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.”

World Way Want Half Sky Color Moon Spring Bird Clouds Quarters Obscure Never Quit Brighter Lighting Melting

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.”

Bird Wings Atheist Clouds Believer Cages Eagles Parting Freethinker

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.”

Source: The Collected Shorter Poems

“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.”

Soul Able Born Destiny Knowing Learning Fire Magic Bird Clouds Forests Educated Sand Grain Our Destiny Comets Grains Of Sand Forest Fires

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.”

Sleep Bird Clouds Never Sleep Sky And Clouds Clouds And Stars Clouds Sky

Book:Works

Source: Works

“If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December.”

Source: Rossetti: Poems

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