“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

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author 1944–2017

A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet

The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)

“A tired flying bird
Has to perch somewhere to rest.
So should my old knees.”

Dilip Sankarreddy Business professional

Wanderings with Poetry (2007)

“If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.”

Margaret Wise Brown The Runaway Bunny

Source: The Runaway Bunny

“Spring: trees flying up to their birds”

Paul Celan (1920–1970) Romanian poet and translator

“and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

“Calico Pie,
The little Birds fly
Down to the calico tree,
Their wings were blue,
And they sang "Tilly-loo!"
Till away they flew,—
And they never came back to me!”

Edward Lear (1812–1888) British artist, illustrator, author and poet

Calico Pie http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html, st. 1 (1871).

“For all species, including our own, the true figure of life is a perching bird, a passerine, alert and nervous in every part, ready to dart off in an instant. Life is always poised for flight. From a distance it looks still, silhouetted against the bright sky or the dark ground; but up close it is flitting this way and that, as if displaying to the world at every moment its perpetual readiness to take off in any of a thousand directions.”

Jonathan Weiner (1953) American nonfiction writer

Source: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 7, Twenty-Five Thousand Darwins

“I realized I was fulfilling mankind’s greatest dream—to fly like a bird, as naturally and as joyously as if the air were our familiar habitat.”

Michael Moorcock book The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 419)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.”

Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) American writer

November Night.
Verses (1915)

“Leaves become most beautiful when they're about to die
When they're about to fall from trees
When they're about to dry”

Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Time Is All Around
Far (2009)

“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

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