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wind sky one-day
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind. Barbara Kingsolver
window old-time swear
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. Buster Keaton
wind white goes-on
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore. Diane Ackerman
wind sail cant-change
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. Billie Joe Armstrong
wind play tennis
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. Chris Evert
wind political ugly
I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. Barack Obama
wind rivers white
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. Bruce Chatwin
wind feet nuclear
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. David J. C. MacKay
wind driving idiot
When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up. Clive Owen
wings giving age
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives. Charles Churchill
wings racist may
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist. Dennis Prager
wings impact black
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
wings poetry flying
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought Edmund Spenser
wings black lasts
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death! Dylan Thomas
wings bird mountain
Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders. Anatoli Boukreev
wings careers pigs
The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever. Rush Limbaugh
wings spirit soar
A spirit cannot soar with only one wing. Tom Robbins
wings action right-wing
The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions. Steven Weber
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips E. Hicks
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate