Why can’t we fly but birds can? That's because birds yearn for the sky more than we do.

…How many times have I dreamed of a melancholy and learned monster, fluent in every language. Knowing all the verses and all the souls, he wandered the whole world, passed through the late Persia, China, India, and dying Europe, fed on thousands of poisons, thousands of fanaticisms, and infinite intoxication; - How many times have I dreamed I had a friend who was a poet and got to know each of them out of despair that I could not be one of them.

The stupid bird will fly first or the slow bird. Slow work will produce careful work. Rome was not built in a day.