Flattering Quote by Martial

The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and…

— Margaret Starbird

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…

— Phineas Fletcher

The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud With white neck peering to the evening clowd. The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.…

— John Clare

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and…

— James Russell Lowell

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

— Michael Gira

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

— William Shakespeare

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

— Henrik Ibsen

“A duodene of bird notes chirruped bright treble answer under sensitive hand. Brightly the keys, all twinkling, linked, all harpsichording, called to a voice…

— James Joyce

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

— William Shakespeare

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

— Philippa Gregory

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

— William Shakespeare