winged creatures Quotes

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.