WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg pilot – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Magee, John Gillespie -- “High Flight” (1941) https://wist.info/magee-john-gillespie/43241/ https://wist.info/magee-john-gillespie/43241/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:23:15 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43241 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ….


John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922-1941) Anglo-American pilot and poet
“High Flight” (1941)
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Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) American astronaut, aviator, educator
(Attributed)

On walking on the moon. In F. French, C. Burgess, In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) ]]> https://wist.info/armstrong-neil/8599/feed/ 0 8599