“He would picture the feather coming loose from the bird, up in the clouds, half a mile above the world, twirling and spinning in violent currents, hurled by gusts of blustering wind across miles and miles of desert and mountains, to finally land, of all places and against all odds, at the foot of that one boulder for his sister to find.”
Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. p. 49.
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“We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference.”
Marshall, Thurgood. "Liberty Medal Acceptance Speech." Speech, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1992.
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“The high pressure zone created by the wind now had an avenue to drain. The breach widened more and more with each passing millennium. As it widened, dust and sand particles carried along with the attack settled in the basin below.”
Weir, Andy. The Martian. New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. p. 364.
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“Finally the waters withdrew, presumably because of reelevation, and the region was land again as it had been before, and the shells of many of the creatures which had lived in the clear and then in the muddy waters were preserved in the accumulated sediments. As the sea withdrew the destructive forces of weathering and the erosive forces of wind and running water became active.”
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. The Reef-Coral Fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California and Its Significance. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1917. p. 358.
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“The source of the external heat was probably an intense solar wind in which intense magnetic fields were sweeping across the surface of the moon which started out as hot enough to produce some electrical conductivity.”
Urey, Harold C. "A Review of the Structure of the Moon." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 115, no. 2 (1971): 70.
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“The infant’s small fist felt strong, gripping his beard.
From a schoolyard, children’s voices echo up a valley. The wind in the wires. Tiny yellow butterflies.”
Silliman, Ron. "From "OZ"." Conjunctions, no. 9 (1986): 35. Accessed May 25, 2021.
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“Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for the wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.”
Seuss. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2020.
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“Night river lost in my beard.
Clang-clang.
Sapless poplars.
Crowds setting sail.
Gray water.
A spasm convulses the earth.
Blue lights
& a wind snake
shine forth.
The century vanishes.”
Rothenberg, Jerome. "The Lorca Variations: Lunar Grapefruits". Conjunctions, no. 18 (1992): 200. Accessed May 25, 2021.
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“The turkey-cock’s tail
Glitters in the sun.
Water in the fields.
The wind pours down.
The feathers flare
And bluster in the wind.
Remus, blow your horn!
I’m ploughing on Sunday,
Ploughing North America.”
Stevens, Wallace. “Ploughing on Sunday,” in Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, ed. Jerome Rothenberg (Garden City: Anchor Books, 1969), p. 519.
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"There were these three: the snowstorm driving down from on high,
the icy blast of mid-winter,
& the cotton cloth which I, the sage Mila, wore;
& between them rose a contest on the white snow peak.
The falling snow melted into goodly water;
the wind, though rushing mightily, abated of itself,
& the cotton cloth blazed like fire.”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 253. From “The Quest of Milarepa” (Tibet) Selected from Sir Humphrey Clarke, The Message of Milarepa (John Murray, London, 1958), pp. 1-2, 6-9.
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“A spirit, a spirit, you who sit there,
who sit there
The fog wind goes from place to place where
the wind blows
Rest
I who acknowledge you to be a spirit &
am dying
I am trying you who are the bear”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. pp. 200-1. “Three Midē Songs & Picture-Songs” in W. J. Hoffmann, “The Midēwiwin or ‘Grand Medicine Society’ of the Ojibwa,” Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1892), passim. p. 195.
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“To you symbols are just words, spoken or written in a book. To us they are part of nature, part of ourselves— the earth, the sun, the wind and the rain, stones, trees, animals, even little insects like ants and grasshoppers.”
Fire, John/Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. “The Meaning of Everyday Objects.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 172. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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“The body is like roots stretching down into the earth—
forcing still a way over stones and under rock, through sand,
sucking nourishment in darkness,
bearing the tread of man and beast,
and of the earth forever;
but the spirit—
twigs and leaves
spreading
through sunshine
or the luminous darkness
of twilight, evening, night, and dawn,
moving
in every wind of heaven
and turning
to whatever corner of the sky is brightest,
compelled by nothing stronger than the light;
the body is like earth,
the spirit like water
without which earth is sand
and which must be free or stagnant;
or if the body is as water,
the spirit is like air
that must have doors and windows
or else is stuffy and unbreathable—
or like the fire
or which sun and stars have been compounded,
which Joshua could command but for an hour.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Spain: Anno 1492.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 141.
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“XXXI
The sky is cloudy
but the clouds—
as the long day ends—
are pearl and rose;
spring has come
to the streets,
spring has come to the sky.
Sit still
beside the open window
and let the wind
the gentle wind,
blow in your face;
sit still
and fold your hands—
empty your heart of thoughts,
your mind of dreams.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Autobiography: New York.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005.
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“At the same time the combination of low viscosity and high density gives rise to the principal hazard of the sea, the giant wind-waves caused by storms that crush small ships and fiercely attack coastal structures. If the water were much more viscous, the wind could not build up high, steep waves, and if it were much lighter, the wave force would be insignificant.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 63. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“as if
already said
spoken shadow
placed on itself
disappears or still
there listening
to finally see the thing
moving
toned away
to the person
could be
with words
it means the sky
shifts to take on
what the ear
says is system
sleep so anterior
letters vaunting
wind pulls cloud
cover as light
spoke a future
behind the sound
meaning no homage
itself or elsewhere
sits
as stated
grammar from the view
and sense on its own side
single crowding
visibility
gone on ahead”
Perelman, Bob. “Outlines.” Primer. Oakland, CA: This Press, 1981. p. 37.
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“Like the wind in the trees and the bells
Of the procession—
How light the air is
And the earth,
Children and the grass
In the wind and the voices of men and women
To be carried about the sun forever
Among the beautiful particulars of the breezes
The papers blow about the sidewalks”
Oppen, George. “Of Being Numerous.” New Collected Poems. Edited by Michael Davidson and Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions, 2008. p. 184.
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“33
Which is ours, which is ourselves,
This is our jubilation
Exalted and as old as that truthfulness
Which illumines speech.
34
Like the wind in the trees and the bells
Of the procession—
How light the air is
And the earth,
Children and the grass
In the wind and the voices of men and women
To be carried about the sun forever
Among the beautiful particulars of the breezes
The papers blow about the sidewalks”
Oppen, George. “Of Being Numerous.” New Collected Poems. Edited by Michael Davidson and Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions, 2008. p. 183-4.
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“sands dazzling under the near
and not less brutal feet journey
in light
and wind
and fire and water and air the five
bright elements
the marvel
of the obvious and the marvel
of the hidden is there
in fact a distinction dance”
Oppen, George. "Disasters." The American Poetry Review 5, no. 5 (1976): 14. Accessed May 26, 2021.
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“Finally the waters withdrew, presumably because of reelevation, and the region was land again as it had been before, and the shells of many of the creatures which had lived in the clear and then in the muddy waters were preserved in the accumulated sediments. As the sea withdrew the destructive forces of weathering and the erosive forces of wind and running water became active.”
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. The Reef-Coral Fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California and Its Significance. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1917. p. 358.
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“Ships that come from the eastward luff up close to the eastern shore: and let go their anchor in 60 fathom water, within half a cable's length of the shore. But at the same time they must be ready with a boat to carry a hawser or rope, and make it fast ashore; otherwise, when the land-wind comes in the night, the ship would drive off to sea again; for the ground is so steep that no anchor can hold if once it starts.”
Dampier, William, and Nicholas Thomas. New Voyage Round the World. Hereford, United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2020. ch. 3.
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“THE ANSWER
Will we speak to each other
making the grass bend as if
a wind were before us, will our
way be as graceful, as
substantial as the movement
of something moving so gently.
We break things into pieces like
walls we break ourselves into
hearing them fall just to hear it.”
Creeley, Robert. "The Answer." Poetry 106, no. 1/2 (1965): 26. Accessed May 26, 2021.
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“The ways one went, the forms that were
empty as wind and yet they stirred
the heart to its passion, all is passed over.
Lighten the load. Close the eyes.
Let the mind loosen, the body die,
the bird fly off to the opening sky.”
Robert Creeley, “Inside My Head.” The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. p. 531.
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