Alexander Pope Quotes, Wings Quotes, Hawks Quotes

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Wings Quotes , Reason Quotes

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Wings Quotes

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.

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Tags : Abdellatif Laabi Quotes , Dwarves Quotes , Wings Quotes

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light 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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Names Quotes , Wings Quotes

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Wings Quotes

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

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Tags : Adam Pally Quotes , Wings Quotes , Order Quotes

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

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wings Quotes , Poetry Quotes

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Death Quotes , Wings Quotes

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Purple Quotes

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

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wings Quotes , Singing 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

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wings Quotes

We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Order Quotes , Wings Quotes

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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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Dark Quotes , Wings Quotes