Prevailing Wind

Famous quotes containing the words prevailing and/or wind:

“As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“A wind came up out of the sea,
And said, “O mists, make room for me.””
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)