The Wild Swans Quotes

#1. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

Willy Russell

#2. New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

Josh Lucas

#3. This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

Robinson Jeffers

#4. Peace starts within. We are what we give.

Sal Di Leo

#5. And the black box in her arms whimpered itself to sleep with longing to be a normal person who is chosen, not a special person who is discovered. To be the kind of duck who gets included by wild swans

Nell Zink

#6. People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

Dean Koontz

#7. The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#9. Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
Wild swans, come over the town, come over
The town again, trailing your legs and crying!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#10. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

#11. Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

Katie Leung

#14. While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

Jung Chang

#15. I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

Katie Leung

#16. 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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#17. That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free.

James S.A. Corey

#18. There's a time and a place for everything. ... Yes. This is my time and you are in my place.

Poppet

#19. Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. Don't ask me to choose between an old love and the new. That's no choice at all.

Cameron Dokey

#21. The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below.

John Clare

#22. And endings are always the beginnings of something else.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#23. Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

Richard Simmons

#25. A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it. And there are more than a few pianists these days who do this, fortunately.

Marc-Andre Hamelin