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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
My heart is like a singing bird.
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.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
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