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“yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.”

Life Seems Common Morning Wind Glory Garden Casts Spread Plot Torn Fragrance Scarce Beam Petals Transience

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.”

Mind Heart I Can Sides Opinion Blood Wind Bears My Heart Healthy Madness Mad Caught Flesh Ran Flesh And Blood

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.”

Reality Tree Mankind Wind Broken Stones Sat Realism Grey

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.”

Way Fear Nature Wind Lonely Unity Blow Flames Flood Multitudes

Book:COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

“When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.”

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.”

Looks Known Wind Hair Weight Miracle Golden Fairness Locks Skulls Wanton Dowry

Book:The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...”

War Hard Bits Feet Wind Revolution Red Soldier Snow Valleys Tied Footprint American Revolution Rags Valley Forge

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!”

Love Made Lying Wind Cold Beats Graves Sheets Clay Passing Away Tempest Spades

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!”

Heart Remember Sun Cry Wind My Heart Rain Blow Flying Graves Weather Martyr Moors

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.”

Men Long Night Stars Dark Wind Moon Riding Wet All Night Moon And Stars

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.”

Men World Death Dies Grows Brain Known Break Wind Fades Decay

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.”

Ifs Love Dies Grows Fire Wind Stronger Gentle Flames Breeze

Author:Ovid

“Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.”

Men Made Water Nature Sun Wind Delight One Man

Author:Ovid

“Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.”

Faces Sun Wind Labor

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.”

Jobs Guy Found House White Teach Wind University Journalism White House Als Ironic Gore Coke New Job Columbia Columbia University

Author:Jay Leno

“In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.”

World Poverty Wind Universal Philosophical Philosopher Fats Autumn Perpetual Autumn Wind

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.”

World Reason Wind Determination Winter Live By Frost Hardened

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.”

Mind Made Wind Bears Summer Winter Woven Straws Rags

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.”

Cry Wind Terrible Heavy Revenge Bassoon

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”

Body Tree Wind Lakes Limbs

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.”

Feels Humans Stills Wind Illusion Irrational

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.”

Soul Wind Flight Parks Swans Discord Gander

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.”

Past Wind Picks Chains Tripping

Author:Mason Cooley

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”

People Want War Real Poetry Movement Poet Wind Travel Connections Museums Collapse Buttons Vietnam War Visiting Unicorn Collision Seedlings

Author:Marge Piercy

“Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision, only when we are the wind together streaming and singing, only in the dream we become with our bones for spears, we are real at last and wake.”

Real Dream Together Lasts Vision Break Wind Singing Mirrors Bones Climbs Spears Streaming

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.”

Poetry Poet Wind Flames

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.”

Believe Humans Ideas Matter Feelings Human Beings Principles Wind Unique No Matter What Fellows Openness Sunlight Basic Principles

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.”

Ifs Way Writing Mind May Happens Turns Stuff Wind Fame News Letters South Woods East Settling Dry Afternoon Items Shifting Drawers Paychecks Settling Down Letter Writing

Author:Robert Benchley

“Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.”

Names Wind Elements Yield Strict Recollection Impunity Headstone

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.”

Happiness Turns Wind Depression Jokes Bird Tools Boat Dirty Corpses Sonnet Plumber Dirty Jokes

Author:Anne Sexton

“... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.”

Way Art Culture Clear Air Sky Land Wind Drink Lows Heavy Homeland

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stills Tree Wind Kings Forests Chairs Grandmother Old Trees Rocking Chairs Dozing

Author:Billy Wilder

“I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.”

Knows Space Watches Morning Darkness Sky Wind Keys Wounds Pockets Stairs

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.”

Men Looks Sex Women Wind Wounds

Author:Joseph Joubert

“The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]”

Has Beens Effects Wind Garden Seeds Mathematical Landscape Legacy Ramanujan

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.”

Mind Home Earth Science Levels Wind Blow Unstable Biologist

Author:Charles Darwin

“There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.”

World Freedom Wind Rounds Nationalism Elsewhere Asia

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”

Sleep Silence Sea Wind Army Neptune

Author:Jean Racine

“The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.”

Mind God Freedom Wind

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds? There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.”

Persons Has Beens Art Eye Interesting Beauty Lord Wind Prejudice Mad Slave Definitions Vulgar Byron Definition Of Beauty

Author:Edmond de Goncourt

“We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.”

Strong Difficult Technology Information Wind Dictator Sheer Brutality Information Technology New Information Wind Blowing

Author:John F. Kerry

“Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.”

Men World Done Earth Power Sea Wind Seasons Storm Endless Over It Dominion Earthquakes Endless Life

Author:Horace Bushnell

“A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.”

Thinking Black Wind Seeds Thoughtful Shakes My Thoughts

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.”

Firsts Young Loss Wind Garden Salt Beaten Ripe Lilies Flakes Narcissus

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.”

Tree Wind Dancing Dancer Bows Arrows Starks

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.”

Littles Soul Grief Wind My Soul Climbs Chests Throat Sigh Grappling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”

Sometimes Moments Past White Music Wind Musician Horse Instruments Musical Mood Phrases Riding Solemn Arrivals White Horse Sonatas New Arrivals Wind Instruments

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.”

Death Wind Hung Avert Thunderbolts

Book:The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems

Source: The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems

“The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.”

Force Wind Flower Rain Fruit Thrown Bees

Book:Selected Poems of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Poems of Charles Olson