#wings

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? ↗

— Jean Paul

#beats #because #covering #feathers #fur

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ↗

— Plato

#charm #everything #flight #gaiety #gives

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mood-swings #psychiatry #funny

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#fly #gave #sad #see #their

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

#angel #book #classroom #comes #descends

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#back #does #easy #hand #him

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. ↗

— Jules Renard

#feet #line #twelve #two #verse

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#air #august #din #every #fury

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#abstract #before #body #choice #difficult

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#blessed #carry #glimpse #heart #heaven