Wind Compass Rose

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

    “As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “loosely bound
    By countless silken ties of love and thought
    To everything on earth the compass round,”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)