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“I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.”

Littles Stills Lost Air Sweet Pride Caught Hills Stem Modest Toes Curves Bud Sobbing Cooling Tapering Goldfinches

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.”

Littles Sometimes Shows Black Space Lows Wings Golden Branches Yellow Freak Hung Feathers Wanton Fluttering Pausing Goldfinches

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.”

Reading Waiting Fiction Wife Example Majors And Love University Currents My Wife Actresses English Major Northwestern Goldfinches Northwestern University

Author:Nick Offerman

“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”

Eye Artist Order Ought Painter Goldfinches

Book:A Picasso bestiary

Source: A Picasso bestiary

“One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about”

Light Age Joy Certain Silence Known Morning One Thing Flower Evening Evening Light Goldfinches

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?”

Imagine Bird Mouths Preaching Sermons Presumption Perfectly Good Pep Pep Talk Goldfinches

Book:Island

Source: Island