Bird Creature

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or creature:

    Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
    Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 10:20.

    From the shrivelling gray
    silk of its cocoon
    a creature slowly
    is pushing out
    to stand clear....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)