Famous quotes containing the word blown:
“Taffeta phrases, silken phrases precise,
Three-piled hyperbole, spruce affectation,
Figures pedanticalthese summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
I do forswear them.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“So the gentle poets name
To foreign parts is blown by fame;
Seek him in his native town,
He is hidden and unknown.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)