Dead Parrot

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or parrot:

“White
Godiva, I unpeel—
Dead hands, dead stringencies.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“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)