Wind Quotes

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May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young. — Bob Dylan
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick… — Hart Crane
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some… — Celia Thaxter
All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the… — Dana Gioia
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves… — Homer
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward… — Lucretius
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives… — Gaston Bachelard
I think my favorite monster movie is "Gone With the Wind", because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster. — Jack Handey
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind! — John Dryden
Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and… — William Penn
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is… — John Ruskin
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by… — Howard Mumford Jones
It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of… — Samuel Pepys
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up… — Alan Sillitoe
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps,… — Andre Kostelanetz

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