Dead Parrot

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or parrot:

“Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)