Turning Flight Stall

Famous quotes containing the words turning, flight and/or stall:

    “and as you read
    the sea is turning its dark pages,
    turning
    its dark pages.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
    As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
    Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
    He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
    How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
    Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
    Has not conscription still the power to weild
    Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
    A faithful harvester!”
    —Joel Barlow (1754–1812)

    “Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
    —Jane Harrison (1850–1928)