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“Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.”

World Water Bird Skins Fishes Shakes Mud

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Stars Beauty Bird Skins Footprint Moss

Book:A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

“I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.”

Humans Stories Animal Bird Skins Feathers

Author:Delia Sherman

“Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

May Stills Soul Running Sports Pleasure Morning Sun Fire Tears Willing Bird Skins Balls Instant Our Time Iron Gates Rough Sweetness Strife Prey Dew Hue Amorous Languish Morning Dew Birds Of Prey

Author:Andrew Marvell

“The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.”

Dream Fall Girl Stars Sun Moon Bird Skins Ill Dreamer Obscure Memories Dreams Reflections Swarms Gnats

Book:Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased.”

Ifs Two Fall Nations Information Husband Bird Skins Agree Falling In Love Determined Beast Agreement Republic My Sister Treaties Uncanny Two Nations

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”

“And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in”

Source: Dandelion Wine