Wind Compass Rose

Famous quotes containing the words wind, compass and/or rose:

“What a woman says to her avid lover
Should be written in wind and running water.”
—Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (87–54 B.C.)

“The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled
Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)