Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Butterfly Quotes, Wings 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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When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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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

Frienship is eros...without wings

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

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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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Attitude 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

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Wings Quotes

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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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sky 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

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

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Tags : Abbas ibn Firnas Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Hands Quotes , Wings Quotes

Frienship is eros...without wings

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Wings 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

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

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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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Wings Quotes , Doe Quotes

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

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