hummingbird QUOTES

1 " A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.
She would make it light enough to float away.
She reached over to open the window.
To float to her daughter. "

― Sarah Addison Allen , The Girl Who Chased the Moon

2 " My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound. "

― , You Shall Know Our Velocity!

3 " Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play
in this strangest of theatres?
What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?
The tiniest green hummingbird in the world?
To stare at some inexplicable old stonework,
inexplicable and impenetrable,
at any view,
instantly seen and always, always delightful?
Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?
And have we room
for one more folded sunset, still quite warm? "

― Elizabeth Bishop , Questions of Travel

4 " Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death "

― T.S. Eliot

5 " The cute little fish had big eyes and a rounded body with black polka dots and fins on either side of him that fluttered like hummingbird wings." He's staring at me." " He knows a beautiful thing when he sees it. "

6 " If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , The Post Office

7 " 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 , You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense