Painted Bird

Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or bird:

“‘Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)