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.
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.
Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene.
All our geese are swans.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes. The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. The Cat and the Moon.
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
The pure swans, with love and affection, dwell in the Ocean of the Lord, and subdue their ego.
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.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans.
AFL ratings would be expected to go up, but they will only get the big increases if the Swans continue to draw an audience in Sydney.
Let the long contention cease; Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be?
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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