„They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the day before it was over? The flowers were still bright; the birds chirped. You could see more in the evening often when nothing interrupted, when there was no fish to order, no telephone to answer.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.“
— Walt Whitman
„Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.“
— Stephen King
„There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.“
— Bashō Matsuo
„p>Not with a Club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone —A Whip so small you could not see itI've knownTo lash the Magic CreatureTill it fell,Yet that Whip's NameToo noble then to tell.Magnanimous as BirdBy Boy descried —Singing unto the StoneOf which it died —Shame need not crouchIn such an Earth as Ours —Shame — stand erect —The Universe is yours.
— Emily Dickinson