Wind Pumps

Famous quotes containing the words wind and/or pumps:

    Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
    The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
    Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

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    Pump pumps over your sweating face the clear
    Water, cold, so cold! you cup your hands
    And gulp from them the dailiness of life.
    Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)