Wind Compass Rose

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

“and yet hands, hands growing out of pictures,
hands crawling out of the walls,
hands that excite oblivion,
like a wind ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

“...the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:6.