Swan Quotes

129 Swan quotes by 76 unique authors

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song… — Michel Patini
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind… — Haruki Murakami
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way. — Natalia Makarova
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. — Quentin Crisp
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes -… — Natalia Makarova
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that… — D. H. Lawrence
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her… — Orlando Gibbons
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms… — Lord Byron
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. — Juvenal
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. — Heinrich Heine
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a… — Sathya Sai Baba
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry… — Phineas Fletcher
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ...… — Woody Allen
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. — Henry Miller
Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak. — Maria Sharapova
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop… — Rufus Wainwright
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make… — Harvey Weinstein
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet. — James Wolcott

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