Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
Id liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“They must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose phantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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