Famous quotes containing the words mute and/or swans:
“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person’s mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)