A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This emotion called love. It is wrapped up in time, measured by years. The more I see of humans the more complicated… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
