“Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Los que dieron sus alas están tristes, de no verlas volar.
Voces (1943)
“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”
Source: The Suppliants, lines 328–329 (tr. Christopher Collard)
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Richard Watson (1781–1833) British methodist theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 219.
“Some are tricks of the light
You'll never know
Make a flickering midnight
Light into a glow…”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
“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
“With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: The Complete Poems