Airy Quotes

• Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.

  Sun Ra

  Air, Honor, Noble

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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• A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Circles, Sound

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

  Madeleine Albright

  Fairy, Idealist, Moralist

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• Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

  Stevie Smith

  East, Christ, Blazing

  Stevie Smith (1964). “Selected Poems”

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• For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
  Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
  Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails,
  Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
  Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew,
  From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

  Alfred the Great

  Rain, Twilight, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 123 (1842)

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• Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

  William Wordsworth

  Hope, Children, Brides

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 3, l. 735

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• Gold to airy thinness beat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gold, Beats, Thinness

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• What are fears but voices airy?
  Whispering harm where harm is not.
  And deluding the unwary
  Till the fatal bolt is shot!

  William Wordsworth

  Fear, Voice, Whispering

  William Wordsworth (1827). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.114

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• He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

  John Keats

  Fear, Voice, Immortal Soul

  John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.97

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• It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

  John Keats

  Men, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

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• In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

  George Biddell Airy

  Mean, Hands, Data

  Sir George Biddell Airy (1855). “Lecture on the Pendulum-experiments at Harton Pit: Delivered in the Central Hall, South Shields, October 24, 1854”, p.4

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• His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

  John Milton

  Nimble, Command

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55

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• Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

  John Donne

  Two, Soul, Gold

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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• Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
  And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

  John Milton

  Halloween, Men, Names

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.40

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• No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Emotional, Political

  Samuel Johnson (1846). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale”, p.144

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

  John Milton

  Memories, Men, Names

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.

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• Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Mother, Loneliness, Moving

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books

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• Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

  John Constable

  Paint, Masters, Steam

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black

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• The other dry shampoo I was using was wet feeling but I love Prive's smell and how light and airy my hair feels afterwards!

  Sarah

  Light, Hair, Smell

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• To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.

  Eric Alterman

  Government, Media Control, Interesting

  Eric Alterman (1998). “Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy”, p.155, Cornell University Press

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• But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

  Lauren Oliver

  Cities, Feet, Desire

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.341, Hachette UK

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• For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

  Aristotle

  Summer, Winter, Quality

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3166, Delphi Classics

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• When we are high and airy hundreds say
  That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
  While those same hundreds mock another day
  Because we have made our art of common things.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Public Opinion, Another Day

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.72, Library of Alexandria

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
  Doth glance from heaven to earth,
  From earth to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heaven, Rolling

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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