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Quotes About Hummingbird

Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.
~ Ada Limón
To imagine the spirit of poetry is much like imagining the shape and size of the knowing. It is a kind of resurrection light; it is the tall ancestor spirit who has been with me since the beginning, or a bear or a hummingbird.
~ Joy Harjo
And as Coldmoon closed the door behind him, he could still hear the faint sound of Pendergast's laughter—dulcet, melodious, yet infinitely sad—as he maintained his sanity by skipping from one tiny sliver of time to another, between the beat of a hummingbird's wings.
~ Douglas Preston
Suppose I say summer, write the word hummingbird, put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.
~ Raymond Carver
Hummingbird FOR TESS Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.
~ Raymond Carver
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
~ Anne Lamott
Hummingbird told me about the Path of Souls. She told me she would be waiting for me at the end…I want to be on the Path of Souls. I want to be with Hummingbird.
~ William Kent Krueger
Hadn't the hummingbird been a kind of miracle? Hadn't it diminished us not to see this as a miracle and protect it?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Falling life You are in a very high tree. If you jump you will live a full life while falling. You will get married to a hummingbird and raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancer in mid-air. I will not lie. it will be painful. You are a brave little boy or girl.
~ Zachary Schomburg
Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'
~ Lesley Nicol
Or maybe there was a god. Mine is the god of isolation, the god of the small voice, the god of the little spirit, of the earthworm and the friendly mouse, the hummingbird, the greenbottle fly and all things iridescent.
~ Louise Erdrich
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...
~ Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—equal seekers of sweetness.
~ Mary Oliver
Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat? He is wiser than that, I think.
~ Mary Oliver
The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
What did it say about the movement of time, about what was about to happen, that I could understand the hummingbird spin of human voices?
~ Gregory Maguire
You tormented a hummingbird of love between your teeth.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
~ T S Eliot
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?
~ Calvin Trillin
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
~ Charles Bukowski
NOTHING. it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
~ Charles Bukowski
We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.
~ Charles Wright