William Shakespeare Quotes, Wings Quotes, Bird Quotes

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

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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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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

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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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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

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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

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

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What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

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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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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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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

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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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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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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

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

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

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Light Quotes