H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Attitude 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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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Purple 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

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

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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wings Quotes , Peaceful Quotes

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death 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 soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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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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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 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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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 have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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

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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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Wings Quotes , Doe Quotes

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

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Giving 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

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Communication Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dog Quotes , Wings Quotes