Birds

(309 votes)   O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(166 votes)   When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(137 votes)   a kestrel for a knave, a merlin for a princess

Barry Hines

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(119 votes)   Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(108 votes)   A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(100 votes)   She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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