“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon
Variant: If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.
Source: Song of Solomon (1977)
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you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso”
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my brain
scattered with your
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the litter of your invasions. I am the space you desecrate
as you pass through.
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Variant: Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
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“Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.”
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Der Erlkönig (1782)
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It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
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Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
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