T. S. Eliot Quotes, Air 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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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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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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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

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

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

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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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Frienship is eros...without wings

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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

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

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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

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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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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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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