China Wind

Famous quotes containing the words china and/or wind:

“Riot in Algeria, in Cyprus, in Alabama;
Aged in wrong, the empires are declining,
And China gathers, soundlessly, like evidence.
What shall I say to the young on such a morning?—
Mind is the one salvation?—also grammar?—
No; my little ones lean not toward revolt.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“To have always
Had the wind for a friend is no recommendation.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)