Quotes About HummingbirdsSusan Taylor Brown2013-10-16T19:54:19-07:00
Quotes About Hummingbirds
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
—Doug Coupland
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.
—John Banister Tabb
I hear like you see — like that hummingbird outside that window for instance.
—Ray Charles
The hummingbird competes with the stillness of the air.
—Chogyam Trungpa
The hummingbird in flight is a water-spark, an incandescent drip of American fire.
—Pablo Neruda
A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel —
A Resonance of Emerald —
A Rush of Cochineal —
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head —
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride –
—Emily Dickinson
Above the flower bed. Over the lawn …
A flashing dip and it is gone.
And all it lends to the eye is this —
A sunbeam giving the air a kiss.
—Harry Kemp
The woods hold not such another gem
as the nest of the hummingbird.
The finding of one is an event.
—John Burroughs
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