Wing Feathers

Famous quotes containing the words wing feathers, wing and/or feathers:

    “These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing
    Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
    Who else would soar above the view of men,
    And keep us all in servile fearfulness.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
    The wing trails like a banner in defeat,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “How easily it falls, how easily I let drift
    On the surface of morning feathers of self-reproach:
    How easily I disperse the scolding of snow.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)