In youth open your mind, And let all learning in; Words the head does not shape Are worthless, out and in. Words wit has not salted,No nearer the heart than the lip, Are nothing more than wind, A puppy's insolent yelp.

-Anonymous
c.1500  'To a Boy'. Translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan ('Frank O'Connor').

   Though raging stormes movis us to shake, And wind makis waters overflow; We yield thereto bot dois not break And in the calm bent up we grow. So baneist men, though princes rage, And prisoners, be not despairit. Abide the calm, whill that it 'suage, For time sic causis has repairit.

-Anonymous
  The Maitland Manuscript,'The Reeds in the Loch Sayis'.

Westron winde, when wilt thou blow, The smalle raine downe can raine? Christ if my love were in my armes, And I in my bed againe.

-Anonymous
c.1500  Untitled lyric.

I challenge all the men alive To say they e'er were gladder, Than boys all striving, Who should kick most wind out of the bladder.

-Anonymous
  Charterhouse public school song, celebrating football.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

-Appleton,Thomas Gold
Attributed.

Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.5.

O'er his white banes, when they are bare, The wind sall blaw for evermair.

-Ballads
'The Twa Corbies'.

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

-Barnes, Djuna
  Doctor. Nightwood, ch.5.

And, behold, the L passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the L; but the L was not in the wind: and after thewind anearthquake; butthe L wasnot inthe earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the L was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORD1 Kings19:11^12.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.But his delight is in the law of the L; and in his law doth he meditate dayand night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in hisseason; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodlyare not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms1:1^4.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:15^16.

And a manshall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 32:2.

   For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Hosea 8:7.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness. For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Wisdom of Solomon 5:13^14.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyonethat is born of the Spirit.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 3:8.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat uponeach ofthem. And they wereall filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 2:1^4.

Never pain to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly.

-Blake,William
  MS Notebooks, p.115.

Mock on, mock on,Voltaire Rousseau; Mock on, mock on,'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again.

-Blake,William
^3  MS Notebooks, p.7.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

-Bodenheim, Maxwell
Quoted in Ben Hecht's play Winkelberg (1958).

   There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things: there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

-Borrow, George Henry
Lavengro, ch.25.