Painted Bird

Famous quotes containing the words painted bird, painted and/or bird:

    “When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
    When our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
    Come live, and be merry, and join with me
    To sing the sweet chorus of ‘Ha, ha, he!’”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Arthur was very small.
    He was all white, like a doll
    that hadn’t been painted yet.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Nor bird nor beast
    Could make me wish for anything this day,
    Being old, but that the old alone might die,
    And that would be against God’s Providence.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)