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

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

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

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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

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

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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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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

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There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

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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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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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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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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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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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We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

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

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

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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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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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