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Liberte :, hurlement de couleurs crispe es, entrelacements des contraires et de toutes les contradictions, des grotesques, des inconse quences:. Freedom:, a howl of unnerving colours, intertwinings of contrarities and contradictions, of the grotesque, of inconsistencies:.
— DADA DADA DADA LA VIE DADA DADA DADA LIFE1924 Sept manifestes Dada,'Manifeste Dada1918'.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
o. henry— "The Gift of the Magi"
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.
william morley punshon— p. 452. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl!
william tecumseh sherman— Telegram to General Grant, as quoted in Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and The American Civil War (1989) by Roger L. Ransom.
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the watercourses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of Saviour’s righteousness.
thomas de witt talmage— Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832-1902), The Pathway of Life, New York: The Christian Herald, 1894 p 100
I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with ‘hurler’ (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), ‘Riquet à la Houppe’ and the title of Maupassant’s book ‘Le Horla’, inspired by mental distraction.
jean dubuffet— Biographie au pas de course, in Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. IV, Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris 1995, p. 510
My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing ... and I feel that the transition of Juan Romero was a terrible one indeed.
h. p. lovecraft— "The Transition of Juan Romero" - Written 16 Sep 1919; first published in Marginalia (1944)
And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.
— William Morley Punshon, p. 215. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Once upon a time there lived boyers (nobles, land owners) who had to howl like wolves. There were periods when even the boyers had bad times.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
He who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl as a wolf.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
— John Fletcher, Queen of Corinth, Act IV, scene 1.
All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will; She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
— William Butler Yeats, in A Prayer for My Daughter (1919), published in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon? We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.
— William Morley Punshon, p. 452. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Let me hear a coyote howl, Or a lonesome hound dog bay. Back to the heart of those lonesome hills I'm gonna be some day. For Oklahoma I'm yearning.
— Jack Guthrie/Wava White, For Oklahoma, I'm Yearning
The madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death.
Allen Ginsberg— Howl and Other Poems, Howl: Section I (1956)
If [Georgians] raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.
— Gen. William T. Sherman (1864), whose Western Army invaded Georgia and waged total war against the Confederacy, destroying cities and property along a band 60 miles wide during his march to the seacoast at Savannah (September-December 1864).
I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘howl’, about the ‘sad cup of coffee’.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I’ve never had a sad cup of coffee.
Robert Rauschenberg— p. 89 (Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art world of Our Time, 1980)
Storms, thunders, waves! howl, crash, and bellow till ye get your fill; Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still But in their graves.
— "Daily Trials" in Companion Poets (1871).
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
— Homer, The Iliad, Book XV, line 752. Pope's translation.
The courage to press on regardless regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.
john bogle— Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, April 16, 2001 ([3])
