Air Quote by Robert Lowell

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking…

— Robert Lowell

“THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side…

— Alice McDermott

“Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect…

— Leslie Land

“In the distance, steel-blue mountains loomed heavy on the horizon, their shoulders burdened with the same accursed snow the gods were currently depositing upon…

— Hazel Butler

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have…

— Richard Brautigan

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

— Stephen Dunn

Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a…

— Tove Jansson

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

— Louise Imogen Guiney

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed…

— Henry David Thoreau

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the…

— Charles Kingsley

“It was June in Maharashtra, and the monsoon would not come. The whole district lay panting in the heat, the burning sky clapped tight…

— Arinn Dembo

Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow.

— Alice Roberts