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The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Wedding-Wind.")
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The wind sprang up at four o'clock
The wind sprang up and broke the bells
Swinging between life and death
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "The Wind Sprang Up at Four O'Clock.")
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Once fishing was a rabbit's foot—
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,
(Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. The Drunken Fisherman (l. 17-18). . .
Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
(Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Blowin' in the Wind, chorus, on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1962).
On the sleeve notes to the record, Dylan wrote: "The first way to answer the questions in the song is by asking them. But lots of people have to first find the wind.")
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 99, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Penguin Books (1978). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Second Part, "On the Rabble," (1883).)
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The South Wind is a baker.
(Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), U.S. poet. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (l. 5). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.)
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All the Valley quivered one extended motion, wind
undulating on mossy hills
(Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 24-25). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. Especially When the October Wind (l. 1-2). . .
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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Surprised by joy—impatient as the wind
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Surprised by Joy (l. 1). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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Papooses crying on the wind's long mane
Screamed red skin dynasties that fled the brain,
(Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Bridge. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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