Fixed Small Bird

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, small and/or bird:

    “But see, the Virgin blest
    Hath laid her Babe to rest:
    Time is our tedious song should here have ending;
    Heaven’s youngest teemed star,
    Hath fixed her polished car,
    Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending;
    And all about the courtly stable,
    Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “We two are left:
    I with small grace reveal
    distaste and bitterness;
    you with small patience
    take my hands.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “You will believe
    a bird flew by the window, a wandering bee
    buzzed in the hallway, a wind
    rippled the bronze grasses. Or will you
    know who it is?”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)