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)

    “All of our lives is a rebus
    Of little wooden animals painted shy,
    Terrific colors, magnificent and horrible,
    Close together.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “A Bird came down the Walk—
    He did not know I saw—
    He bit an Angleworm in halves”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)