“Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.”
Source: Betrayed
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Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Verde que te quiero verde.<br>Verde viento. Verdes ramas.<br>El barco sobre la mar<br>y el caballo en la montaña. <br class="br">" Romance Sonámbulo http://www.poesia-inter.net/index203.htm" from Primer Romancero Gitano (1928)
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.
http://books.google.com/books?id=QSdPNfXQavAC&q=%22L'absence+diminue+les+m%C3%A9diocres+passions+et+augmente+les+grandes+comme+le+vent+%C3%A9teint+les+bougies+et+allume+le+feu%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage
Variant translation: Absence weakens the minor passions and adds to the effects of great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Maxim 276.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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Biko
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Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Valley Candle"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
Then beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
Until the wind blew.
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