“We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.”
Source: The Lollipop Shoes
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March. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Attributed
“Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen.”
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
“I will not let you in.
I face towards the wind.
I change into the Mule.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
“Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI "The Directions of the Streets with Remarks on the Winds" Sec. 1
“I am Arnaut who love the wind,
And chase the hare with the ox,
And swim against the torrent.”
Ieu sui Arnautz qu'amas l'aura
E cas la lebre ab lo bueu
E nadi contra suberna.
"Ab gai so cundet e leri", line 43; translation from Ezra Pound The Spirit of Romance (1910) p. 30.
“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”
Symbol 8
The Symbols
“When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
errant consilia nostra, quia non habent quo derigantur; ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est.
Letter LXXI: On the supreme good, line 3
Alternate translation: If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. (translator unknown).
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
Context: Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.