Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer
First Evening, "A Symbol".
The Poet's Journal (1863)
“Passions…are the gales of life…”
As quoted by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke in a letter to Jonathan Swift (29 March 1730).
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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744Related quotes
“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.”
Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night
Stanza 9
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Katniss, p. 186/187
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness
Part 4, Chapter 2, III
Variant: Man is a useless passion.
Source: Being and Nothingness (1943)
“for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Katniss, p. 186/187
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: I wonder what Gale made of the incident for a moment and then I push the whole thing out of my mind becouse for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts.
“I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.”
Djuna Barnes book Nightwood
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
“Thus I steer my bark, and sail
On even keel, with gentle gale.”
Matthew Green (1696–1737) British writer
The Spleen (1737)
“We read of the gales that bear from the shores of Ceylon the breathings of the cinnamon groves.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)