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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Foxes

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• When turkeys mate they think of swans.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny Love, Drinking, Inspiration

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• I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

  Maeve Binchy

  Writing, Ugly Duckling, Ducks

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• Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were
  To see thee in our water yet appear.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Sight, Water

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Water

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sky, Cities, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

  Philip Massinger

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thinking

  Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic Works: A new way to pay old debts. The great Duke of Florence. The unnatural combat. The bashful lover”, p.133

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Lying, Water Lily, Dying

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.306

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• Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Nature, Should

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

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• Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

  Geena Davis

  Degrees, Puff, Pasta

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

  Walter de La Mare

  Evening Light, Sorrow, Foam

  Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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• 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 to reclaim our own inner voices!

  Margaret Starbird

  Voice, Roots, Singing

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• I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Beauty, People, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Bird, Silver, Silent

  'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'

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• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  Saint Basil

  Deep Water, Fishing, Feet

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.131, CUA Press

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• The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

  Arthur Golden

  Beautiful, Tree, Parent

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.103, Random House

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• I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.

  Jim Benton

  Tattoo, White, Snow

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.53, Scholastic

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• The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Singing, Apollo, Causes

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", I. 30, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 772-73,

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• Remember that you are a Black Swan.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Black, Remember, Black Swan

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• Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, White, Water

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.434

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• Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Stars, Wall

  Pablo Neruda, “Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love,”

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• The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'

  Orlando Gibbons

  Wise, Farewell, Eye

  1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

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• Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Morning, Sea

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.309

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• 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

  Writing, Research, Economic

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• Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Leaving, Sugar

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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