Swans Quote by Charles Baudelaire

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement…

— Charles Baudelaire

“God, I scream for time to let go, to write, to think. But no. I have to exercise my memory in little feats just…

— Sylvia Plath

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

— Epictetus

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

— David Mitchell

So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for…

— Sarah Dessen

Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation…

— Lily Collins

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

— Matthew Arnold

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the…

— Thom Yorke

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Swans only have one partner for their whole life, and if their partner dies they can pass away from broken heart

— Ritu Ghatourey

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