Wings Swept

Famous quotes containing the words wings and/or swept:

“Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Alvina felt herself swept ... into a dusky region where men had dark faces and translucent yellow eyes, where all speech was foreign, and life was not her life. It was as if she had fallen from her own world on to another, darker star, where meanings were all changed.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)