Here are the quotes: When all persons of any gentility will keep at least a pair of wings, and be seen skimming about in every direction; I shall take a flight to Paris (as I soar round the world) in a cheap and independent manner. --Charles Dickens As in their flight the birds of song… Steer forward on the wing: Sun-servers they, from first to last, Upon the sun they wait To ride the sailing blast. --Robert Louis Stevenson 'Tis dusk, it will be still… Look at that soft and golden light, High in the unclouded sky; Watch the last bird’s belated flight, As it flits silent by. --Charlotte Brontë Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. -- “The Eagle” By Alfred, Lord Tennyson If I had but two little wings And were a little feathery bird, To you I'd fly, my dear! --Samuel Taylor Coleridge She spread her brown wings for flight, and soared into the air. She passed through the grove like a shadow, and like a shadow she sailed across the garden. --Oscar Wilde An eagle flight, bold, and forth on, Leaving no track behind. --William Shakespeare To hear the Lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; --John Milton In the golden light'ning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. --“To a Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley