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)

    “Yet I would bear my shortcomings
    With meet tranquility,
    But for the charge that blessed things
    I’d liefer not have be.
    O, doth a bird deprived of wings
    Go earth-bound wilfully!”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)