“Nests,” p. 55
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.
“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”
Source: Prodigal Summer
“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird (2014) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KkYtBgAAQBAJ,
“For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year's nest!”
It is not always May, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“No bird, but an invisible thing,
A voice, a mystery.”
To the Cuckoo, st. 4 (1804).
Invitation to Love, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567
