Abbas ibn Firnas Quotes, Men Quotes, Wings Quotes

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wings Quotes , Thrones Quotes

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Wings Quotes

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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