Mary Howitt (1799–1888) English poet, and author
The Sea-Fowler, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Mary Howitt (1799–1888) English poet, and author
The Sea-Fowler, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) British Indologist
Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 211. (61.)
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Funeral" (l. 1–4)
“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”
Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist
“You are all just perfect little satellites
Spinning round and round this broken Earthy life”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Satellite Call"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
“The force that moves you is a circular breath
of life and death going round and round and round.”
Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States
"The Wheel"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
Context: All your thoughts are in another head.
Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed.
The force that moves you is a circular breath
of life and death going round and round and round.
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 228.
“I say that we are wound
With mercy round and round
As if with air.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 34-36
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)