“These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.”

— Clifford D. Simak , book City

Editor’s Preface (p. 5)
City (1952)

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American writer, journalist 1904–1988

Travis Meeks (1979) American musician

Dancing with the wind (Red - 2003).
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“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

"On the Collar of a Dog".

“Some have held that there are only four winds: Solanus from the east; Auster from the south; Favonius from due west; Septentrio from the north. But more careful investigators tell us that there are eight.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 4

“Sleep is when all unsorted stuff comes as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”

William Golding book Pincher Martin

Source: Pincher Martin (1956), Chapter six, as cited in [Robert Andrews, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=VK0vR4fsaigC&pg=PT657, 30 October 2003, Penguin Books Limited, 978-0-14-196531-4, 657]

“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Some of the Dharma (1997)

“You shall also keep your fires burning if the ships are blown back by contrary winds, but if the ships are foreign or not Dutch (onduitsch) you shall at once extinguish your fire.”

Jan van Riebeeck (1619–1677) Dutch colonial governor

Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, January 1656 - December 1658, Riebeeck's Journal, H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town 1897, p. 117

On the 3rd of May 1658 Jan van Riebeeck gave further instructions to the men on Robben Island;

“You’ve the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

“I enjoy all the different levels of engagement. Whether it’s going to be a slow burn or an instant, raging forest fire depends on the story…”

Beverly Jenkins (1951) American author of historical and contemporary romance novels

On writing about various types of relationships in “Interviews: Beverly Jenkins” https://bookpage.com/interviews/24085-beverly-jenkins-romance#.Xflpo-lKjcs in BookPage (2019 May 28)

“The storm is here. From the clash of these two winds the storm will be born, its time has arrived. Now the wind from above rules, but the wind from below is coming…. The prophecy is here. When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world but something better.”

Subcomandante Marcos (1957) Mexican activist

" Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds http://struggle.ws/mexico/ezln/marcos_se_2_wind.html" (August 1992)

“These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.”

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