“Said I, in scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high,
"You ignominious idiot,
Those wings are made to fly!"”
A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
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“Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.”
Los que dieron sus alas están tristes, de no verlas volar.
Voces (1943)

“Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.”
The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Old Boreal Owl prayer, Grimble's last words; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
The Capture (2003)