#wings

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. ↗

— Jules Renard

#feet #line #twelve #two #verse

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#air #august #din #every #fury

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#abstract #before #body #choice #difficult

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#blessed #carry #glimpse #heart #heaven

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. ↗

— Edward Cocker

#declines #honor #learning #precious #precious things

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#being #brushed #something #touched #wings

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#butterfly #did #dust #his #know

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beneath #bird #boughs #feels #flight

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#i #loving #red #red wings #uniform

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#creeds #dark #dark ages #drawings #like