Anne Frank Quotes, Dark Quotes, Wings Quotes

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

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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

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wind Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Wine Quotes , Wings Quotes

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wings Quotes , Singing Quotes

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Wings Quotes

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Wings Quotes

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

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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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wings Quotes , Poetry Quotes

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Angel Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Wings Quotes , Done Quotes

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

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Giving 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

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Eagles Quotes , Wings Quotes

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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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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A man with no imaginations has no wings.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Wings Quotes , Reason Quotes

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wings Quotes