
“Without moving anything / I want to see / the way this autumn / makes the birds move.”
From Syksy muuttaa linnut (Autumn Moves the Birds, 1961. 88 Poems, WSOY, 2000, ISBN 951-0-24783-9. Translated by Anselm Hollo).
“Without moving anything / I want to see / the way this autumn / makes the birds move.”
From Syksy muuttaa linnut (Autumn Moves the Birds, 1961. 88 Poems, WSOY, 2000, ISBN 951-0-24783-9. Translated by Anselm Hollo).
“History moves in strange ways.”
Hindu View of Christianity and Islam (1992)
Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats", 64.
“Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!”
"I Knew a Woman," ll. 1 - 4
Words for the Wind (1958)
Context: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
“History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.”
Collected Works, Vol. 27, pp. 159–63.
Collected Works
“It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways.”
"Mysterious Ways"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)