Blow

Famous quotes containing the word blow:

““The wind doth blow today, my love,”
And a few small drops of rain;
I never had but one true love,
In cold grave she was lain.”
—Unknown. The Unquiet Grave (l. 1–4)

“You feel you could pucker up and blow away the miles between 49 Bard Road [Brixton] and that apartment in New York where I could be tomorrow morning, if the apartment still existed, if Peregrine still existed, if the past weren’t deeper than the sea, more difficult to cross.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“And in their blazing solitude
The stars sang in their sockets through the night:
“Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.””
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)