“Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.”
The Dhammapada
“They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy in their abode; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house and home.”
Friedrich Max Muller
“Now wakes the hour Now sleeps the swan Behold the dream The dream is gone”
Pink Floyd
“He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.”
William Shakespeare
“But calm, white calm, was born into a swan”
Elizabeth Coatsworth
“Get my Swan costume ready.”
Anna Pavlova
“When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And every lass a queen; / Then hey for boot and horse, lad, / And round the world away: / Young blood must have its course, lad,/ And every dog his day.”
Charles Kingsley
