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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.