Flying Blue Angel

Famous quotes containing the words flying, blue and/or angel:

    “A word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth,
    To some good angel leave the rest;
    For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
    There are no birds in last year’s nest!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)