Sifted Quotes
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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More Sifted Quotes
Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
Basil Bunting— 1925 Villon, pt.1.
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669. Compare: "God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, iv.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Part IV (The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858))
Lo, sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow, White petals from the flowers that grow In the cold atmosphere.
— George W. Bungay, The Artists of the Air.
