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“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.”

Way Mother Sea Brother Wind Window Regard Noise My Brother Fashionable Chimes

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.”

Hard Shows Reality Chance Sleep Rooms Silence Sea Window Tall Infinity Candle Chill

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”

Truth Lying Pleasure Sea Adventure Honor Battle Standing Window Errors Ships Wander Shore Castles Mist Tempest

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.”

Men Looks Dream Stars Sea Land Behavior Window Ancient Realization Passengers Apathetic Land And Sea

Author:Paul Goodman

“I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.”

Ifs World Trying Real Easy Nice Sea Ocean Window Yeah Planes Being Nice Flew Airline Whales Southwest Airlines

Author:Robert Schimmel

“Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.”

Littles Country Together Hate Three Language Hours Sea Century Europe Standing Window Train Shoulders Chains Stations Flags Crushed Passengers Rush Hour National Language

Author:Quentin Crisp

“hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.”

Faces Sea Tears Hair Kissing Window Size Hanging Out Throat Thick Cheeks Breeze Fists Lumps Amber Heathers Thick Hair

Book:Angel of Mercy

Source: Angel of Mercy

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

World Mind Has Beens Said Book Humanity Change Teacher Impossible Magic Sea Poet Development Civilization Window Treasure Companion Print Engines Magician Bankers Lighthouse Standstill

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life