Quote for Today: Susanna Clarke
There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential …
Quote for Today: Amit Ray
A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for. ―Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird Photo …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open …
Quote for Today: Grace Dane Mazur
An almost invisible bird, a small piece of hopping dirt, purposed along the edge of the flower bed, eyeing for beauty or looking for worms. Olivia watched it as she …
Quote for Today: George Saunders
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day’s end. They were manifesting as the earth’s bright-colored nerve endings, …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares …
Quote for Today: Antony Sher
As we’re leaving the King’s Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; …
Quote for Today: Epes Sargent
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. –Epes …
Birds in Human Form: Lemi Ponifasio’s Birds with Skymirrors
Birds with Skymirrors is a provocative and beautiful dance work choreographed by Lemi Ponifasio, one of New Zealand’s most famous artists. It was inspired by a walk on the beach on …