Swept Wings

Famous quotes containing the words swept and/or wings:

    A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
    Chinese proverb.

    Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!
    Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
    Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
    Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
    How should he love thee—or how deem thee wise
    Who woulds’t not leave him in his wandering,
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)