Big Wings

Famous quotes containing the words big and/or wings:

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelley’s poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life is a vision of beauty and radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is “a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.””
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)