Swan Quote by Padraic Colum

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

— Allen Ginsberg

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling…

— Katey Sagal

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

Get my swan costume ready.

— Anna Pavlova

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik…

— Walter Dean Myers

Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside…

— Ramakrishna

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

— Heinrich Heine

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

— Rainn Wilson

“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.”

— Munia Khan

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming…

— Jessye Norman

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

— Robinson Jeffers

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

— Martial