storks quotes

If only to be born were being invented Merely, or, better still, to concoct oneself From an antique alembic, a receipt. How splendid To take the phial cleanly from its shelf; Powders and liquids, all one's favourite hues Making the being one would be, the looker at stars Or storks on the spires of Denmark, drinker of dews, Or an eye simply.

- Charles (Mike) Doyle
'Phials', collected in Quadrant,1964.

A woman who is veryanxious to get children always reads 'storks'for 'stocks'.

- Sigmund Freud
  The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.