H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Wings Quotes

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

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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

Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Wings Quotes

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Thorns Quotes

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ease 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

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

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

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wings Quotes , Feet Quotes

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Wings Quotes

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wings Quotes , White Quotes

Frienship is eros...without wings

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Wings Quotes

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Wings Quotes

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wings Quotes , Quiet 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

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Men 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

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wings Quotes , Peaceful Quotes

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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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Dwelling Place 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