Ovid Quotes, Fear 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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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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

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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Men 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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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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

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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Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

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Tags : Aga Khan III Quotes , Life 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

Frienship is eros...without wings

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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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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sky Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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

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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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When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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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

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ideas 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