“Free as a bird to settle where I will.”

“Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.”

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

“In the last sweep of love, they pass over fields
Behind the aerodrome, where boys play all day
Hacking dead grass: whose cries, like wild birds
Settle upon the nearest roofs
But soon are hid under the loud city.”

“Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”

“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.”

“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.”

“This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.”