“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)
Source: The Suppliants, lines 328–329 (tr. Christopher Collard)
Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά, πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.
“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)
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…”
Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
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 on Zionism (1964)
“Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.”
Muse II http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muse-ii/
From the poems written in English
“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
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.”
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”
Source: The Complete Poems