Like living flame, their faces seemed to glow. Their wings were gold. And all their bodies shone more dazzling white than any earthly snow

--Dante

Had he looked up he might have seen angels of light dancing above the throbbing bright squares-in whirlwinds, will-o'-the-wisps, and golden eddies-but he didn't look up, for...he had seen angels many times before. Their faces shone from paintings; their voices rode the long and lovely notes of arias; they descended to capture the bodies and souls of young children; they sang and perched in the trees; they were in the surf and the streams; they inspired dancing; and they were the right and holy combination of words in poetry.
--Mark Helprin
A Soldier of the Great War

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince

That's all an angel is, an idea of God.
--Meister Eckhart

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
--William Shakespeare

So many wings come here dipping honey and speak here in your home Oh God.
-- Aztec Poem

I looked over Jordan and what did I see?
Comin' for to carry me home
A band of angels, comin' after me,
Comin' for to carry me home.
~~~African-American spiritual~~~

For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
--Psalms 91:11, 12

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
--Scottish Saying