destroyer quotes

Time the destroyer is time the preserver.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.13^4.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'The ForceThatThrough the Green Fuse Drives the Flower'.