“For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”
“The gull sees farthest who flies highest”
“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again”
“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
“Hark to the sky of a seagull!He cries because he's not an eagle.Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull?What would you say to your she-gull?”
“First, a poem must be magical,then musical as a sea-gull.”