Feathered Wings

Famous quotes containing the words feathered and/or wings:

“the pull of gravity, which is not simple
which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing
air.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)