Bird
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Tame birds sing of freedom.
Wild birds fly.
—John Lennon
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Blackbird singing
in the dead of night.
—Beatles
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Birds flyin' high,
you know how I feel.
—Nina Simone
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I want to paint
the way a bird sings.
—Claude Monet
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Wherever there are birds,
there is hope.
―Mehmet Murat Ildan
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migrating birds—
fields of pampas grass
show the way
—Kristen Deming
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The gull
giving loneliness
sound.
—Alexis Rotella
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The bluebird
carries the sky
on its back.
—Henry David Thoreau
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My heart wants to beat
like the wings of the birds that rise
from the lake to the trees.
―The Sound of Music
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To-night
the self-same songs are sung,
the first green forest heard,
my heart
and the gray world grow young,
to shelter you,
my bird.
—Sophie Jewett
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Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.
―Bob Ross
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And wild, wild sings the bird.
―Mary Oliver
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All of us with wings.
—Jane's Addiction
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Fly on, little wing.
―Jimi Hendrix
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