Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Wings Quotes

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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

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

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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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

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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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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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

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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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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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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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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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

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

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It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

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Frienship is eros...without wings

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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