Wind Quotes - Page 9

• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.

  Audre Lorde

  Years, Two, Tree

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Dark, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

  Alice Childress

  Writing, Light, Gale

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• A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Boys, Long

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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• The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kissing, Moon

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Light, Virtue

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• The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Blow, Broken

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• Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.

  Jim Elliot

  Moving, Sound, Want

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• The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• Love's heralds should be thoughts,
  Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
  Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
  Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
  And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wings, Shadow

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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• I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Morning, Dragons, Care

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Farthest Shore: Book Three”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Time, Taken

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• The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

  Coventry Patmore

  Mean, Men, Sky

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

  George Herbert

  Sheep, Giving

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Faith, Night, Sea

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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• Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Doe, Accidents

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Real, Men, People

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• May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

  Teresa of Avila

  May, Comes And Goes, Stills

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• The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Kissing, Passionate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New complete ed., with illustr, by J. Gilbert”, p.15

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• From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting,
  Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang.
  Tonight, if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
  Who could help but long for the gardens of home?

  Li Bai

  Song, Spring, Home

  Li Po, “Spring Night In Lo-Yang Hearing A Flute”

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• ... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Needs, World

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• Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Writing, Together, Half

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• It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Frustration, Sailing, Nautical

  Ernest K. Gann (2000). “Song of the Sirens”, p.37, Sheridan House, Inc.

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