"Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off." (Neil Gaiman)

🎨 Alex Dos Diaz

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💤🦉💤Feeling tired this

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So. This is how the owls attract the moths.

🎨Karen Davis

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🦉
🖼️MH, Low Countries, c.1500 - 1549.

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Return to her, and fifty men dismiss’d?
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o’ th’ air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, –
Necessity’s sharp pinch!

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‘You don't need anything but hope. The kind of hope that flies on silent wings under a shining owl moon.’
—Jane Yolen

🎨 Sophie Eves

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"Turn each of your thoughts into a bird
And let them fly to the other world.
One is an owl, one is a falcon, one is a crow.
Each one is different from the others
But they are all the same in silence." (Rumi)

🎨 CappuccinoMP3

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Looking at the stars for Image by Anna Speshilova.

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Scary screech owls on the hunt will brush by your head and trill in your ear.

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"And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver."
(from "The Owl" from Arthur Sze)
🎨Teagan White

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A pretty magical owl is basically all one wishes for in a day (side effects include wonder, a woosh feeling on the top of one's head, and dead mice - hey, it's still an owl).

art by Polina Yakovleva

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🪶🦉🪶a mystical doorway into

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"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here" (Emily Dickinson)

🎨 Leon Spilliaert

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She flies with all the birds, but knows it is the owls who guard her.


by Anna Speshilova

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‘The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.
And her wings straining suddenly aspread
Caught color from the last of evening red’
—Robert Frost

🎨 By longestdistance

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"Perched missile, almost invisible, you preen silent feathers, swivel your sleek satellite dish of a head. What fills the cool moons of your mesmerizing eyes?"
(from “Dark Emperor” by Joyce Sidman)
🎨Sophie Eves

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“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?" (Kierkegaard)

🎨 Eri Nakagawa

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'The Witch's Daughter'
by Frederick Stuart Church

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"Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth."
(John Ruskin)

🎨 Charles Livingston Bull

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