"The First Morning", p. 7
Desert Solitaire (1968)
“Space is a wind that does not blow
On Betelgeuse and time – oh time – is a bird,
Whose wings have never stirred
The golden avenues of leaves
On Betelgeuse.”
"Betelgeuse", from The Unknown Goddess (London: Methuen, [1925] 1927) p. 34.
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Humbert Wolfe 3
English poet 1885–1940Related quotes

“.. the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.”
Quote in the text of Jean Dubuffet, 'Project pour un petit texte liminaire introduisant les publications de 'L'art brut dans l'écrire', 1969 (1969), published in Le Langage de la rupture', Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1978
1960-70's

The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)
As quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, p. 86

“Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!”