Pale Wing Patch

Famous quotes containing the words pale, wing and/or patch:

    “Art thou pale for weariness
    Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
    Wandering companionless
    Among the stars that have a different birth,”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
    Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
    O that that earth which kept the world in awe
    Should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)