William Blake Quotes, Hands Quotes, Wings 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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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

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

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wings Quotes , White 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

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Men 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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

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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wings Quotes , Broken Quotes

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Giving Quotes

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wings Quotes , Yield Quotes

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Exercise 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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wings Quotes

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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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

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wings Quotes , Quiet Quotes

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Long Quotes