This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.
[Footnote: This note probably refers to the text No. 1221.]
Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.