Wild Swan Publications

Famous quotes containing the words wild, swan and/or publications:

    ““Because I am mad about women
    I am mad about the hills,”
    Said that wild old wicked man
    Who travels where God wills....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew,
    Did never whiter shew,
    Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
    For love of Leda, whiter did appear:”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)