“Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.”

“There’s a beauty in birds on the wing,That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creaturesLong for flight, but the larks above the battlefieldAre silenced by the sounds of war.I have watched birds out at sea,Catching the wind,And longed to follow them,To some safe place far from here.”

“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”

“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”

“It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid it can't even fly any more. I am eating lost flight.”

“For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird”