“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
“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)
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Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Old Boreal Owl prayer, Grimble's last words; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
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“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)
“Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Pies, para qué los quiero
Si tengo alas para volar.
Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)
1946 - 1953
Matta El Meskeen (1919–2006) Egyptian monk
Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way
Richard Watson (1781–1833) British methodist theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 219.
