Strong Winds

Famous quotes containing the words strong and/or winds:

    “Grandfather sang it under the gallows:
    “Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all mankind:
    Money is good and a girl might be better,
    But good strong blows are delights to the mind.”
    There, standing on the cart,
    He sang it from his heart.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The cold wet winds ever blowing,
    And the shadowy hazel grove
    Where mouse-grey waters are flowing,
    Threaten the head that I love.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)