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“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”

Air Tree Wind Clouds Passing Passings Bows Passing By

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”

Giving Littles Seems Together Peace Air Wind Flower Clouds Little Things Teamwork Perfume Meadows

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”

Air Society Wind Clouds Breathe Insufficient

Book:The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

Music Air Wind Type Performances Musical Clouds Sculpture Sculpting

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.”

Looks Seems Imagination Sea Son Wind Red Green Wings Rose Clouds Foolish Ridiculous Grass Knees Heels Twists Risen Bending Your Son Hurrying Nightfall Aprons Porpoises

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.”

Space Taught Wind Wall Bird Garden Clouds Dust Thirst Epiphany Minerals Lizards Tedium Puncture

Book:A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

Source: A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today”

“I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.”

“Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?”

World Long White Path Wind Goes On Cold Mountain Rain Clouds Wide Grass Ties Leap Trails Mist Slippery Moss Creeks Boulders Gorges Cold Mountain White Clouds

Book:Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

Source: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”

Fall Freedom Wind Rain Clouds

Book:The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

Source: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.”

Whole Night Wind Moon Clouds Pursuit Flying Pursued Rushing Spooky Wild Nights

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.”

Faces Night Stars Dark Watches Air Tears Wind Clouds Weather Windy Rain And Snow

Book:Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”

“To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.”

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”

Happens Race Sky Wind All Things Seasons Clouds Things Happen Good Times

Author:Dan Millman

“That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.”

“In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.”

Ends Moments Fall Language Water Wind Shapes Singing Bird Understood Clouds That Moment Sunlight Fountain Beginnings And Ends Ged

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”

Ifs Stars Memories Darkness Wind Let Me Clouds Pity Crush Sensations Leaving Me Mock

Book:Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

Break Sun Sky Changed Wind Moon Clouds Kingdoms Chains Marvelous Friends For Life

Book:Daphne's Book

Source: Daphne's Book

“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”

“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”

“High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest”

Hands Three Tree Wind Bed West Clouds East Hills Counting Nests Flew Flocks Geese Cuckoos Tracing Pine Trees One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside.”

Feels Sometimes Might Felt Wind Hair Mass Beats West Clouds Storm Feel Good Relief Purple Hail Brewing Whipping

Author:Elizabeth Chandler

“For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.”

Years Heart Littles Stills Night Lost Wind Regret Cold Moon Clouds Chill Floats Slopes Eleanor Sobbing

Book:Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

“When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.”

Source: Dark Road to Darjeeling