Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
“I'm learning to fly,
But I ain't got wings.
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Learning to Fly, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
“They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Malcolm X on Zionism (1964)
“Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Muse II http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muse-ii/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World
