Zephyr Quotes

• I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

  Grover Cleveland

  Truth, Responsibility, Men

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• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

  Alexander Pope

  Blow, Strain

  Alexander Pope (1717). “Works of Mister Alexander Pope”, p.95

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• And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

  Alexander Pope

  Play, Water, Sound

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.316

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• Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.

  Thomas Gray

  Blow, Laughing, Rising

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 71

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• Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.151

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• Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

  Catullus

  Sweet, Spring, Sky

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• What joy have I in June's return?
  My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
  I scent no flowery gust;
  But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
  With dry Macadam on its wings,
  And turns me 'dust to dust.'

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, June, Dust

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.488

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• Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

  Alexander Pope

  Breathe, Train, Shrouds

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
  Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
  Only to meet again more close.

  John Keats

  Flower, Air, Rose

  John Keats (2011). “John Keats”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Flower, Power

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

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• The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Voice, Perfect, Spirit

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.461, Discovery House

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• Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
  Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
  The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
  On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
  Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
  Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Eye, Sky, Play

  Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!

  Abraham Coles

  Country, Stars, Cheer

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

  Theophile Gautier

  Travel, Horse, Moon

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• A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Sunset, Sight

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• When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.97

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• George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.

  George Harrison

  Wind, Laughing, Worry

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Hands, Rose

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• [Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.

  Jonathon Keats

  Talking, Air, Car

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper...and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white guest room that one of them would have one day. Because I recognize emotions only in retrospect, I didn't know that I was happy. As always, there was something nagging at my mind's corners. But I did know that I had all that it is proper in this world to wish for.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Girl, Blue

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• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Blow, Numbers

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 368

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Real, Rivers

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
  But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
  No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
  But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Winter, Rocks, Mountain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.3

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