Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or creature:
“What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O, ‘tis the ravished nightingale!
“Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu,” she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
Brave prick-song! who is’t now we hear?
None but the lark so shrill and clear;”
—John Lyly (1553–1606)
“From the shrivelling gray
silk of its cocoon
a creature slowly
is pushing out
to stand clear....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)