John Burroughs Quote

It might almost be said that the birds are all birds of the poets and of no one else, because it is only the poetical temperament that fully responds to them.

Birds and Poets With Other Papers, Birds And Poets (p. 9), David Douglas Edinburgh, Scotland. 1884

It might almost be said that the birds are all birds of the poets and of no one else, because it is only the poetical temperament that fully responds ...

It might almost be said that the birds are all birds of the poets and of no one else, because it is only the poetical temperament that fully responds ...

It might almost be said that the birds are all birds of the poets and of no one else, because it is only the poetical temperament that fully responds ...

It might almost be said that the birds are all birds of the poets and of no one else, because it is only the poetical temperament that fully responds ...