Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. — John Constable Copy Share Image
And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light,… — Hans Børli Copy Share Image
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight,… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on… — John Gay Copy Share Image
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's… — John Milton Copy Share Image
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
“Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. — John Milton Copy Share Image
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses… — William Blake Copy Share Image
