There is room in the west for wolves.

-Babbitt, Bruce Edward
  Statement atYellowstone National Park in Wyoming,12 Jan, to the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, on the controversial restoration of wildlife.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is fromthe west, so far hath heremoved our transgressions from us.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:11^12.

When Adam and Eve were dispossessed Of the garden hard by Heaven, They planted another one down in the west, 'Twas Devon, glorious Devon!

-Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin
  'Glorious Devon'.

But two miles more and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the west Sit then, awhile, here in this wood So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  'Regret', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

   Of a'the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the West; For there the bonie Lassie lives, The Lassie I lo'e best.

-Burns, Robert
  'Of a' the airts the wind can blaw', or 'I Love my Jean', stanza1.

The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with heröa sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past eternity.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza 27.

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West!

-Dodgson
  The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the Second:  The Bellman's Speech'.

  Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

-Chapman, Arthur
  Out Where the West Begins, stanza1.

It isclosing time inthegardens oftheWest and fromnow on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Horizon, no.120^1, Dec1949^  Jan1950 (double issue, the final issue of the journal).

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rareörare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Epitaph'.

Le livre est l'opium de l'Occident. Books are the opium of the West. See Marx 557:94.

-Thibault
  La Vie litte¤  raire, pre¤  face.

Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  North of Boston,'The Death of the Hired Man'.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

-Greeley, Horace
  Hints  toward Reforms.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Ballad of East and West'.

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point†but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-MacArthur, Douglas
  Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19 Apr.

The east wind prevails over the west wind.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Spoken at an international conference of Communist leaders in Moscow. Quoted in Ross Terrill Mao:  A Biography (1980), ch.14.

Our whole history inclines us towards the democratic powers.Our renaissance is a logical link between us and the democracies of the west.

-Masaryk,Toma¤  s Garrigue
  Inaugural address, 23 Dec.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of bird's cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'West  Wind'.

What do they know of England, who only the West End know? See Kipling 471:99.

-Powell, Michael
  Attributed comment in defence of Gone to Earth.

O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 5, stanza12,'Lochinvar'.