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Source: Quiet Dell: A Novel

“Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.”

Water Sleep Wind Hush

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.”

Way May Air Wind Straws

Book:Seldeniana: with a biographical preface

Source: Seldeniana: with a biographical preface

“Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.”

Watches Knowing Sea Sky Wind March Gray Arches North Wind

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.”

Long My Own Wind Fine Cold Seasons Drunk Sheets Claret Cold Wind

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.”

Sun Air Blood Wind Climate Clouds Weather Ice Desert Dry Sand Blinded Ivory Frigid Thin Air Sand Dunes

Author:Marge Piercy

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Life Looks Children Littles Bigs Seems Able Grows Boys Gone Growing Up Strange Wind Cold Married Landscape Over It Retirement Retiring Being Married Procession Cold Wind

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”

May Sometimes Next Sound Half Wind Flower Hair Sitting Stores Thee Spares Hook Careless Reap Poppies

Author:John Keats

“But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.”

Wind Kissing Grateful Rose Bees

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?”

Sports Written Wind Constitution Fundamentals Endure Doctrine All Time Shifting

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”

Thinking Knows Mean Voice Wind Instruments Jazz Strings Versus Horns Bass Violin Trumpets Wind Instruments

Author:Debbie Harry

“A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.”

Needs Mean Feelings Wind Fine Albums Meals Reviews Timeless Whistling Jade

Author:David Cross

“When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.”

Earth Heaven Sea Wind Defeat

Author:Anjem Choudary

“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.”

Wind Revolution Police Folly Revolt Crossroads

Author:Albert Camus

“There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.”

Lasts Joy Dies Language Grows Too Much Sea Wind Green Retreat

Author:Robert Graves

“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

Author:Janet Echelman

“All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.”

Knows Men Years Children Guy Acting Responsibility Wind Baseball Noses Fifty Taking Responsibility Caps Shorts Old Guys Conscription Baseball Caps Fifty Year Olds

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.”

Dream Sea Wind Drink Kissing Wine Drinking Thee Drinking Wine

Book:Songs of the Sierras

Source: Songs of the Sierras

“Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.”

Way Purpose Wind Inflation Deflation

Author:William McChesney Martin

“May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.”

Ifs May Stills Wind Comes And Goes

Author:Teresa of Avila

“What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.”

Mind Soul Problem Existence Forever Wind Waste Paper Refuse Fantastic Compare Hung Centre Floating Spiders Pondering Baskets Barrels Uncanny Twigs

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."”

Two Might Names Given Wind Fame Patterns Bread Instance Thirty Motive Given Names

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance”

Life Lasts Time Taken Minutes Wind Equal Flow Eternity Importance Chains Time Passing Petals Time Passes Life Time Old Life

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.”

Soul Body Causes Sound Effects Produce Wind Corruption Cease Organs Pipe Spoilt

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”

Way Age Water Danger Wind Stupidity Chiefs Routine Laziness Sloth Confronting Swamps Cellars Shutters

Book:The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning

Source: The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning

“Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.”

Mind Fire Rocks Wind Wave Furious

Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.”

Men Mean Seems Earth Spirit Force Born Sky Wind Weight Affection Temptation Ties Carrie Opposing Kites

Book:The Rod, the Root and the Flower

Source: The Rod, the Root and the Flower

“For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.”

Heart Wind Hatred Blow Wrath Voyages

Book:The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.

Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.

“O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.”

Soul Heaven Wind Mountain Eternal Standing Prejudice Calm Clouds Scales Height Bleak Meek

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings

“Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.”

Reality Running Form Pleasure Wind Lovers Weather Flats Melancholy Sail Venture Remorse Keel

Author:Cyril Connolly

“On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.”

Ifs Men Should Left My Own Principles He Man Wind Fool Republican Standing Abuse Bills Clinton My Time Devices Stations Bus Fairness Unfair Pointing Hideous Chili

Author:Molly Ivins

“Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.”

Ifs Writing Achieve Wind Glory Accidents Immortality Adam Economist Fling Pluck

Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”

Earth Energy Sun Forever Wind Amount Built Fuel Carbon Infrastructure Limitless Alternative Energy

Book:Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Source: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

“Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.”

Wind Wave Blow

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

“I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.”

Moving Sleep Wind Ships Tides

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.”

Source: The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell

“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”

People Littles Saws Four Century Wind Shame Gentle Friendly Humiliation Breeze Ghetto Humiliated Invisibility

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.”

Giving Wind Sheep

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Words and feathers the wind carries away.”

Wind Carrie Feathers

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”

Believe Humans Emotion Mystery Share Cry Wind Ears Meaningful Rising Carrie Hurricanes Molecules Collision

Book:Advertisements for Myself

Source: Advertisements for Myself

“Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.”

Wind Illusion Empty Ridiculous Immortality Butterfly Chasing Empty Words

Author:Milan Kundera

“Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.”

Heaven Hell Wind Blow Pretense Heaven And Hell Ripped Icy

Author:Arthur Miller

“The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.”

Dream Pain Desire Wind Wall Ghost Enormous Grieving Sleepers

Book:The House of Dust: A Symphony

Source: The House of Dust: A Symphony

“Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.”

Men Looks Sides Wind Blind Fortune Wave Practicals Blindness Industrious Practical Life Navigators

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.”

Bigs Literature Names Waiting My Own Behinds Leader Century Wind Shadow Vote Opposition Twentieth Century Cabinets Winds Of Change

Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”

World Long Earth Night Faith Sea Wind Breaths Lays Rounds Edges Naked Melancholy Shore Folds Withdrawing Girdles Shingles Round Earth

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”

Humans Heart Kind Stills Earth Sun Gone Air Sky Mines Wind Bears Promise Summer Rain Fairs East Planes Leafs Human Heart Thyself Lofty Frost Zephyr

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.”

Light Cities Wind Moon Edges Dust Peaches Orchard Prunes

Author:Woody Guthrie

“Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back and enjoy and let the wind flow through your hair. When you're directing, you're sitting there going, "I need to make this shot. How many hours do we have left in the day? How many hours behind are we?" You're just constantly worried about doing the job.”

Want Needs Jobs Left Enjoy Hours Behinds Wind Hair Shots Sitting Flow Finals What You Want Worried Consuming

Author:David Shore

“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.”

Thinking Children Darkness Sun Wind Listening Useless Looking Down Apaches

Author:Geronimo

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