Wind Quotes - Page 21

• Life - life - let there be life!
  Better a thousand times the roaring hours
  When wave and wind,
  Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
  From the Avenger at his heel,
  Storm through the desolate fastnesses
  And wild waste places of the world!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Storm, Arches

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• We are the voices of the wandering wind,
  Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,
  A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

  Edwin Arnold

  Life, Voice, Storm

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.34, Routledge

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• A little sun, a little rain,
  A soft wind blowing from the west,
  And woods and fields are sweet again,
  And warmth within the mountain's breast
  
  A little love, a little trust,
  A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
  And life as dry as desert dust,
  Is fresher than a mountain stream.

  Stopford Brooke

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Stopford Augustus Brooke (1889). “Poems”

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• An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Thinking, Talking

  Shel Silverstein, “The Oak And The Rose”

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• The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky
  The deer to the wholesome wold;
  And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
  As it was in the days of old.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Heart, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.

  Shel Silverstein

  Nice, Winter, Wings

  Shel Silverstein, “Weird-Bird”

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• The moods of love are like the wind,
  And none knows whence or why they rise.

  Coventry Patmore

  Life, Mood, Knows

  Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.104

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• Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Weather, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
  And it opened its fan
  like leaves to the light,
  and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Sunset, Kissing

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.254

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• What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

  John Keats

  Summer, Nature, Gentle

  John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.114, Modern Library

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• We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Nature, Sound

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• He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.

  Douglas Adams

  Air, Wings, Time Flies

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  Ray Bradbury

  Horse, Moving, Book

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• When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

  Viola Spolin

  Air, Self, Views

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• That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Stars, Winter, Odd

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• No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Writing, Tree

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7”, p.10, Liturgical Press

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• Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

  William Wordsworth

  Autumn, Woods, Fall Season

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fall, Autumn, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moving, Fall, Autumn

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.288, Vintage

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• My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Hair, Skins, Fans

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vision, Doe, Purpose

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• For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

  Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press

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• Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Needs, Looks

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• It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

  Washington Irving

  Beer, Men, Ale

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• May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Strong, Athlete

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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