Wind

“The wind shrieks, the wind grieves;And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.”

“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night," he had said. "You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”

“We are the voices of the wandering wind,A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.”

“Nature, with equal mind,The wind sweep man away.”

“The hushed winds wail with feeble moanLike infant charity.”

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

“Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don't try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following breeze they hoist full sail; in a head wind they shorten sail or heave to. Adapt yourself to circumstances in the same way.”

“Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.And the wind blows it back again.”

“There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.”

“Come in, dear wind, and be our guestYou too have neither home nor rest.”

“He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, And visions rise and change which kill me with desire —”

“As winds come whispering lightly from the West,Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.”

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”

“And the wind will whip your tousled hair,You will write your story of a life.”

“The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.”

“The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.”

“The oldShould weep?”

“The rulers of the earth are sowing a fearful wind, to reap a most terrible whirlwind.”

“The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the windThe Answer is blown' in the wind.”

“When gentle winds blow through the city and strong winds scatter, I stand up as an equal to Ickur. I am Ezina, I am born for the warrior -- I do not give up.”

“After this I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding tight the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow upon the earth or upon the sea or upon any tree.”

“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”

“Perhaps the windFor what has been and is not.”

“But certain winds will make men's temper bad.”

“What joy have I in June's return?      And turns me "dust to dust."”

“The way of the Wind is a strange, wild way.”

“Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for onlyThe wind will listen.”

“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,Under a windy knob.”

“Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”

“The shadow of a doveUpon me, winds that I know, and storm.”

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill.And you´re two months back in the middle of March.”

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.”

“He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.”

“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.”

“A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.”

“To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.”

“I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind…”

“There, like the wind through woods in riot,Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.”

“O that our souls could scale a height like this,The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.”

“It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.”

“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”

“Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro —And what should they know of England who only England know?”

“A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”

“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.”

“It is the winterwind that blows, wailing all night long, wailing for the far-off day; the branches toss, the boughs sway, it is the winterwind that blows... And the winds of winter sing a song of loneliness and silent sorrow; echo-less their lament dies away over the empty veld in the night, sighing through the grass seeds, and drawn is far away.”

“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;And April's in the west wind, and daffodils.”

“The wind is not helpless for any man's need,Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.”

“Mournfully, oh, mournfully,Of ages long gone by.”

“The example of a believer is like a fresh tender plant; from whichever direction the wind blows, it bends the plant. But when the wind dies down, (it) straightens up again.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail.”

“Look when the clouds are blowingIs still beneath the waves.”

“We love the kindly wind and hail,Of ampere, watt, and volt.”

“Indoors or out, no one relaxesThe taxes last us all the year.”

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.”

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“A rush of wind comes furiously now, down from the mountaintop. "The ancient Greeks," I say, "who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to use it exclusively to foretell the future. They listened to the wind and predicted the future from that. That sounds insane now. But why should the inventors of reason sound insane?"”

“I chose none to askchasing the fogs”

“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”

“I thought you understood," he said. "The world is your teacher. It will be all around you. The ocean and the wind and the stars and the moon will all teach you many things.”

“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”

“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”

“Come as the winds come, whenNavies are stranded.”

“What wind blew you hither, Pistol?Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.”

“Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.”

“Rough wind, the moanest loudWail, for the world's wrong!”

“I arise from dreams of theeAnd the stars are shining bright.”

“We hear the wail of the remorseful windsHomeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.”

“Let the winds blow! a fiercer galeWhither, O whither, who can tell!”

“I listen to the windOnly God really knows”

“The is a satisfying wind; the is harmful to man. The is a rain-bearing wind; the is greater than those who live there. The east wind is a wind of prosperity, the friend of Naram-Suen.”

“I have grown weary of the winds of heaven.The debt is paid and now I turn to go.”

“Sweet and low, sweet and low,While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.”

“A fresher GaleWhile the Quail clamors for his running mate.”

“You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass -- I the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.”

“First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!”

“There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.”

“I had thought, seeing how bitter is that windOf that late death took all my heart for speech.”

“Voiceless it cries Mouthless mutters.”

“Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind!While all my thoughts congeal to verse!”

“The faint old man shall lean his silver headHis temples, while his breathing grows more deep.”

“Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to findThe perfumes thou dost bring?”

“Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delayPass silently from men as thou dost pass.”

“A breeze came wandering from the sky,The shy, yet unreluctant stream.”

“When the stormy winds do blow;And the stormy winds do blow.”

“The wind is awake, pretty leaves, pretty leaves,He will be lisping and pledging to you.”

“The wind's in the east * * * I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.”

“The winds that never moderation knew,Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.”

“The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm!”

“The wind, the wandering windThrough which its breathings pass?”

“An ill wind that bloweth no man good—The blower of which blast is she.”

“Madame, bear in mindThat princes govern all things—save the wind.”

“He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.”

“The wind bloweth where it listeth.”

“I hear the wind among the treesLike keys of some great instrument.”

“Chill airs and wintry winds! my earI listen, and it cheers me long.”

“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.”

“The winds with wonder whist,Smoothly the waters kisst.”

“While rocking winds are piping loud.”

“When the gust hath blown his fill,With minute drops from off the eaves.”

“Never does a wilder songWooes it with enamor'd sighing.”

“Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,Draughts of life to me.”

“When the stormy winds do blow.”

“Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.”

“And the South Wind—he was dressed Of the waving hand he kissed.”

“A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.”

“O the wind is a faun in the spring timeHear how gay!”

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

“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,Pestilence-stricken multitudes.”

“* O wind,If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

“Cease, rude Boreas! blustering railer!”

“There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.”

“Emblem of man, who, after all his moaningLife, as a windmill, grinds the bread of Life.”

“Sweet and low, sweet and low,Wind of the western sea!”

“Yet true it is as cow chews cud,It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

“I dropped my pen; and listened to the wind To timely sleep.”