Wheeling Quotes
More Wheeling Quotes
As we rush, as we rush in the train, The trees and the houses go wheeling back, But the starry heavens above that plain Come flying on our track.
james thomson— Sunday at Hampstead (1863–65), part X
As we rush, as we rush in the train, The trees and the houses go wheeling back, But the starry heavens above that plain Come flying on our track.
— 1863-5 'Sunday at Hampstead', stanza10.
We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end. In other words, don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.
václav havel— Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment, p. 83
List 'twas the cuckoo O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint, Far off and faint, and melting into air, Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again! Those louder cries give notice that the bird, Although invisible as Echo's self, Is wheeling hitherward.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The Cuckoo at Laverna.
Around, around, in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam, Canto I, stanza 10.
I sat with Doris, the Shepherd maiden; Her crook was laden with wreathèd flowers; I sat and wooed her through sunlight wheeling, And shadows stealing for hours and hours.
— Arthur James Munby, Pastoral.
I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass; I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling Lone and high, And the slow clouds go by. I will get me away to the waters that glass The clouds as they pass. I will get me away to the woods.
— "I have Need of the Sky", p. 56. (Along the Trail (1898))
