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Quotes About Winged

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
~ Caleb Cushing
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.
~ Koushun Takami
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
~ Douglas Jerrold
She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.
~ Tanith Lee
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Night swept in like nothing Leni had ever seen before, like the winged shadow of a creature too big and predatory to comprehend.
~ Kristin Hannah
You should have seen them, Thyon said. "It was surreal." As an afterthought, he added, "Though I can't believe none of them rode the dragon." "I know!" said Ruza. "What was Azareen's thinking, choosing a winged horse when she could have a dragon?" "I don't think she was really focused on which creature was best," said Tzara. "You shouldn't have to focus on it," said Ruza. "It's instinctive. Dragons are always best.
~ Laini Taylor
His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it—a city that had vanished in the mists of time.
~ Laini Taylor
He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.
~ Catherine Fisher
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Blake
Eternals I hear your call gladly, Dictate swift winged words, & fear not To unfold your dark visions of torment.
~ William Blake
It's furry and sleeps upside down and has a really chewy tail," said
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
~ Ouida
Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.
~ Unknown
noble winged pig.'" "Yes, the spirit of programming.
~ Vernor Vinge
metamorphosis, n.: Love turns us into winged creatures, venturing in ways we never could have conceived in our crawling days.
~ David Levithan
Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.
~ Li-Young Lee
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
~ Alexander Pope
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
~ Plato
For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
~ Plato
The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.
~ Plato
which was named after the Roman god Mercury.
~ Dean Koontz
When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke—a huge winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red.
~ Ingmar Bergman