Flapping Wings

Famous quotes containing the words flapping and/or wings:

“I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A sudden blow; the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)