“On the wings of Time grief flies away.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.
Book VI (1668), fable 21.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright
“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) English dramatist and writer
"Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).
Thomas Watson (1616–1686) English nonconformist preacher and author
The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)
“Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
Context: My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: In Malta, catch a swallow,
For all of the guilty — to set them free.
Wings fill the window,
And they beat and bleed.
They hold the sky on the other side
Of borderlines.
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) American novelist, short story author
The Angelic Angleworm (p. 70)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
