Swept Wings

Famous quotes containing the words swept and/or wings:

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “who lives on, lives on
    like the wings of an Atlantic seagull.
    Though he has stopped flying,
    the wings go on flapping
    despite it all,
    despite it all.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)