“ You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. ”
- Socrates- Copy
- 1K
“ Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 262
“ The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow! ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 3K
“ Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3K
“ The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 939
“ Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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 come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue — the swan's down-feather That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide And spend her strength with overmatching waves. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
- 168
“ We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 2K
“ Swans sing before they die — t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ”
- Hans Christian Andersen- Copy
- 493
“ No opera of Mozart's has stimulated biographers' wishful thinking in such rich measure as Die Zauberflete. It is considered his swan song, a concluding apotheosis, a return to divine simplicity. ”
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer- Copy
- 3K
“ The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I was like a swan - sort of gliding on the top, but my legs were paddling underneath. ”
- Lee Westwood- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 2.1K
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