William Butler Yeats Quotes, Wings Quotes, Giving Quotes

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

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

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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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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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Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

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

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

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Frienship is eros...without wings

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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

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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

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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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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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Angel 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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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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

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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's 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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