“Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.”
1920s, A Peck of Gold (1926)
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Robert Frost 265
American poet 1874–1963Related quotes
“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”
"The Pasho", Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004
"Devils & Dust"
Song lyrics, Devils & Dust (2005)
“I chose none to ask
why the wind was blowing there
chasing the fogs”
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From Poetry
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)
"Introduction"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.
“For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust”
"What I Expected Was" (l. 25–28). . .