to fly like a bird...

 

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

 

 

 "The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche."

- Cesar Pell

"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life... 

The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds 

-- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- 

and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!"
- John Burroughs

 

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
 - Langston Hughes