Arena Quote by Jacopo Sannazaro

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of…

— Jacopo Sannazaro

“He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing river with her incantations; her…

— Tibullus

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

— Anonymous

“They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in all the grandeur which…

— Jane Austen

“Outside, the wind and rain scribbled foreign letters across the sand, firm and final like a verdict: have spoken. I have said all there…

— Anonymous

“-the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown…

— Nick Cutter

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude…

— Gustave Flaubert

“In the darkness of the forest he saw her, and whispered her name, Melusina, and at that summoning she rose out of the water…

— Philippa Gregory

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in…

— Homer

“Tempestuous in her sorrow, the wind unrestrained squalls, as from charcoal clouds above, tears from heaven begin to fall.”

— Michelle Connor

“But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and…

— Gustave Flaubert