“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Love Poems
"The First Voyage Over," The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (August 1913); later published in A Traveler at Forty (1913), ch. I: "Barfleur Takes Me in Hand"
“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Love Poems
“The beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.”
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) British politician and poet
The Brookside.
“Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Pies, para qué los quiero
Si tengo alas para volar.
Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)
1946 - 1953
Brent Budowsky (1952) American journalist
Why Libertarian Gary Johnson must be included in debates (August 11, 2016)
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 71
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“I bongo with my Lingo,
Beat it like a wing yo
From Congo to Columbo,
Can't sterotype my thing yo”
M.I.A. (1975) British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director
Sunshowers
Lyrics, Arular (2005)
Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Old Boreal Owl prayer, Grimble's last words; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
The Capture (2003)