Wings Quotes
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin
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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
Amy Lowell
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With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.
Jean Dubuffet
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Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
Lord Byron
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou
Laini Taylor
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An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.
Petrarch
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Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?
Pablo Neruda
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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
Anzia Yezierska
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
D. H. Lawrence
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She soars on her own wings.
Socrates
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
T.A. Barron
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
William Cowper
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I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.
Kelly Clarkson
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The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.
Marge Piercy
