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Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
Basil Bunting
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

t. e. hulme

— Essay on Contemporary American Poetry- Poetry & Drama Vol II ed. Harold Munro Poetry Bookshop , London 1914

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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.

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God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Part IV (The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858))

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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.

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