#creature

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#delight #enjoy #fall #felicity #liberty

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#bit #could #creatures #did #envy

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#creature #living #living creature #man #only

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird? ↗

— David Attenborough

#bird #birds #close #creature #ears

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#earth #giant #inhabit #little #makes

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past. ↗

— Pat Morita

#because #corner #creature #cry #earth

Darkness can't drive out darkness only light can do that, Hate can't drive out hate only love can do that. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

This isn't going to be some freaky pagan sex thing, is it? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#found #girl #hungry #ireland #lost

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan-wate #beauty