Hold the fleet angels fast until he bless thee.
--Nathaniel Cotton
Good-night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
--William Shakespeare
Hamlet, V. ii

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
...All forces that reside in the body are angels.

--Moses Maimonides

The angels sing the praise of their Lord and ask forgiveness for those on earth...

--The Koran XLII:5

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from another, but from God alone.

--William Blake


And now were these two men, as 'twere, in Heaven...Being swallowed up with the sight of angels, and with hearing of their melodious notes.

--John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress

It is said by those who ought to understand
such things, that the good people, or the fairies, are some of the angels who were turned our of heaven, and who landed on their feet in this world, while the rest of their companions, who had more sin to sink them, went down farther to a worse place.

--William Butler Yeats
Fairy Tales of Ireland


And now it is an angel's song,
That makes the heavens be mute.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Like living flame their faces seems to glow.
Their wings were gold. And all their bodies shone more dazzling whit than any earthly show.

--Dante
The Paradiso, Canto XXXI
(John Ciardi trans.)

Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold.
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim's.

--William Shakespeare
The Merchat of Venice

The angels laughed. God looked down form the seventh heaven and smiled. The angels spread their wings and, together with Elijah, flew upward into the sky.

--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Elijah the Slave