“One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.”

“Take that singing bird away!
It has too glad a lay
For an ear so lorn as mine!
And its wings are all too light,
And its feathers all too bright,
To rest in a bosom like mine!”

“the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.”

“Birds of a feather flock together”

“Birds of a feather will gather together.”

“6295. Birds of a Feather
Flock together.”

“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”

“574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.”

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

“To a Young Poet

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”