Wings

Famous quotes containing the word wings:

“Meanwhile I, deserted, was lamenting a little to myself your long delays in foreign loves, until sleep with its pleasing wings compelled me, fallen.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun’s right hand.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)