Winter Migratory Birds

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or birds:

    Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
    Agustin Gomez-Arcos (b. 1939)

    It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book—on risk of a lumbago & sciatics.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)