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Wings Quotes - Page 15

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

O for a horse with wings!

'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 3, sc. 2, l. [49]

You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings.

Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.20, New World Library

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow, www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.

Isaac Ambrose (1737). “Prima, media, & ultima: the first, middle, and last things, in three treatises : wherein is set forth, I. The doctrine of regeneration or the new birth, II. The practice of sanctification, in the meanes, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, III. Certain meditations of [brace] mans misery in his [brace] life, death, judgement, & execution, gods mercy in our [brace] redemption & salvation”

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.177

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon