Swans

Famous quotes containing the word swans:

“Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“O death, come close mine eyes;
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”
—Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)

“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)