Famous quotes containing the words feather and/or plume:
“Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In some of those dense fir and spruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night, and every fir and spruce which you fell is a plume plucked from night’s raven wing.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)