Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I am as restless a traveller in my own land as a wintering whooper swan.” — Jim Crumley Copy Share Image
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Swans only have one partner for their whole life, and if their partner dies they can pass away from broken heart — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . .… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a… — Jim Benton Copy Share Image
“But earlier this week on a wooded path, I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir were the true geniuses, the ones… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
“Youngest Brother, swan's wing, where one arm should be, yours the shirt of nettles short a sleeve and me with no time… — Debora Greger Copy Share Image
Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's a wonder they can sit down at all, and when they walk, nothing touches their legs under the billowing skirts, except… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
“As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The name came from, erm... us all just agreeing on a name that we liked. There was talk of Swans at first,… — Jimi Goodwin Copy Share Image
“It was a dead swan. Its body lay contorted on the beach like an abandoned lover. I looked at the bird for… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
