What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.
Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!
Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.
Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, Why should sadness longer last? Grief is but a wound to woe; Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
