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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

— Donald G. Mitchell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

— Victor Hugo

My heart is like a singing bird.

— Christina Rossetti

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

— K'naan

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

— Seamus Heaney

✗Opposing Perspectives

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

— William Cartwright

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

— Lewis Carroll

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

— Evita Peron

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

— Jean Ingelow