Wings Quotes
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“That I had loved not as I should. A creature made of clay. When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose his wings at the dawn of day”
― In the Band
― In the Band

“So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.”
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“For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.”
― Five Children and It
― Five Children and It
“Death wins nothing here,
gnawing wings that amputate–�
then spread, lift up, fly.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
gnawing wings that amputate–�
then spread, lift up, fly.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch.”
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“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)
Whispering to myself
With every step I take,
Trying out names, for I know
There is something yet to be called �..
I know it, something up ahead
Just around the bend
Or over the rise �
A bird taking to the sky
From the edge of a jagged cliff �
A bird floating outwards
In silence …�. A silence
Waiting for a footstep
To crunch on stones,
For a voice to fling upward
Through sharp sunlight
With a name…� calling
Before the bird could call
Before the bird called.
Oh the bird was there alright
And sure it took flight
When it heard me approach
But it broke my heart
With a mighty croak!
So I’m sitting here playing
With a purple flower
Slender stem, no leaves
Purple fizz �
And it’s quiet again.
I am still
I am nothing
And the hill
Is a long, long slope
Down, down, down to the sea
Far below.
I could roll
I could run
I could scream
But I am nothing.
A cool wind blows
And the light is naked and nameless
And the rocks are faces of angels
And the bird in the sky wheels
And cries to forget the earth
And its ancient bones �
Oh, sensual pain �
Wings�. Wings�. Wings,
Singing wings.
If only I could begin
To describe the emptiness
Which fills me to the brim
With new breath
I might almost lose my name
And take instead a feather for my soul.”
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Whispering to myself
With every step I take,
Trying out names, for I know
There is something yet to be called �..
I know it, something up ahead
Just around the bend
Or over the rise �
A bird taking to the sky
From the edge of a jagged cliff �
A bird floating outwards
In silence …�. A silence
Waiting for a footstep
To crunch on stones,
For a voice to fling upward
Through sharp sunlight
With a name…� calling
Before the bird could call
Before the bird called.
Oh the bird was there alright
And sure it took flight
When it heard me approach
But it broke my heart
With a mighty croak!
So I’m sitting here playing
With a purple flower
Slender stem, no leaves
Purple fizz �
And it’s quiet again.
I am still
I am nothing
And the hill
Is a long, long slope
Down, down, down to the sea
Far below.
I could roll
I could run
I could scream
But I am nothing.
A cool wind blows
And the light is naked and nameless
And the rocks are faces of angels
And the bird in the sky wheels
And cries to forget the earth
And its ancient bones �
Oh, sensual pain �
Wings�. Wings�. Wings,
Singing wings.
If only I could begin
To describe the emptiness
Which fills me to the brim
With new breath
I might almost lose my name
And take instead a feather for my soul.”
―

“I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I love
I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway”
―
I'll do what it takes til I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I love
I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway”
―

“The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly.
But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.”
― An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness
But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.”
― An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness

“So what can I really do? If you can jump through a two-story window, then what can I do?"
"You can do that too. You don't need wings to do it,either.”
― Angelfire
"You can do that too. You don't need wings to do it,either.”
― Angelfire

“It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.”
― Grace
― Grace

“There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, what and how much you can eat and drink, and how to purchase those. They will strip you of your religion, race, gender, national origin, age, color, creed, views and power, and have control of the population. They will set in a new world order, and put you in the back of the line, marked and branded. Everything before will be erased, and the new will be manipulated. And what you believe most, can only be kept secret, for all must fall in line of their govern. Anything outside will be abolished. Even death, will be sought, but restrained. They will execute complete and total control over everything, and be sole owners of your soul. The light, that once guided will go dim, and liberty will be like an unwilled bird, suppressed in the cage of your ribs; wings cut off.”
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“You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels into which a cargo of meaning and emotion are placed, and when they leave you and reach the farther shore of another mind a considerable portion of that cargo has been lost at sea. Fallen overboard, gone to rot, consumed by vermin, decayed to a state unlike its original form.”
― Mortality Bridge
― Mortality Bridge
“The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.”
― The River of Winged Dreams
― The River of Winged Dreams

“Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.'
'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.”
― Bones of the Moon
'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.”
― Bones of the Moon
“You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann”
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Lotte Lehmann”
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“She didn't even ask me if I was going to go on flying. She knew I would. I don't understand the people who have wings and don't use them. I suppose they're interested in having a career. Maybe they were already in love with somebody on the ground. But it seemsâ€� I don't know. I can't really understand it. Wanting to stay down. Choosing not to fly. Wingless people can't help it, it's not their fault they're grounded. But if you have wings...”
― Changing Planes
― Changing Planes

“Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.”
― Glitterland
― Glitterland

“Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They moved above her and the sunlight made them glow as though they were themselves made of light, fragments of another, brighter world falling to earth about her crib. Her tiny hands stretched upwards to grasp them but could not: they were too elusive, too radiant, too much of the air.”
― Poe's Children: The New Horror
― Poe's Children: The New Horror

“If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screaminâ€� in a nut house a long time ago.”
― The River of Winged Dreams
― The River of Winged Dreams

“We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.”
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“If only I had feathered wings,
that could bend and curve and reach,
beyond imagined dreams,
unhindered by the weight of earth.”
― An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness
that could bend and curve and reach,
beyond imagined dreams,
unhindered by the weight of earth.”
― An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness

“All that pent up longing,â€� he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.”
― Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction
― Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“The start of a run is like the start of a writing session: First you resist, then you threaten to quit, then you roll your eyes and hunker down, and then suddenly you sprout wings and take flight.”
― The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
― The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
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