Yr wybrwynt helynt hylaw
Agwrdd drwst a gerdda draw,
Gŵr eres wyd garw ei sain,
Drud byd heb droed heb adain.
"Y Gwynt" (The Wind), line 1; translation by Joseph P. Clancy, from Gwyn Jones (ed.) The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English (Oxford: OUP, 1977) p. 38.
“Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"Willow" (1940)
Context: Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.
The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul,
But I loved the silver willow best of all.
“I hear always the sad voices
of summer
passing like red winged birds
over the high grass”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Red Winged Birds (1917)
“Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.”
Louis De Bernières book Birds Without Wings
Source: Birds Without Wings
“A man without ambition is like a bird without wings”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/14/wings/
“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”
Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 1
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Laughing Gas
Laughing Gas (1936)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette (3rd January 1835) Versions from the German (First Series.) - 'The Black Hunt of Litzou'
Translations, From the German
