Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: storm :: wind

Quoted In The Grove:
I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale’d been good.
~Kohta Hirano

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.
~Joel Osteen

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

EndQuote:
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
~Haruki Murakami

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Exercise Prompt for sometime soon: story

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Editor’s Note: With a goal of getting a first draft on the seventh, and final, novelette in his Archipelago & Oakley series, preparations are underway for this editor’s escape into solitude. Priorities will shift from curating quotes to story-telling. In order to maintain a quality experience, the Post & Review will continue without a scheduled deadline. Anyone following this newsletter will receive email notice; otherwise, please check back every couple weeks as curiosity warrants.

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On windy fall days, the rustling of the leaves seems almost musical… These sounds of wind in the trees and the rustling of leaves have enchanted so many people over time that they invented a word to describe them: psithurism (pronounced sith-err-iz-um). Psithurism comes from the Greek word psithuros, which means whispering.
~Wonderopolis.org

AUSTROMANCY is a method of divination by the winds. It is, apparently, a branch of the science of Aeromancy, which says Agrippa, divines by ærial impressions, by the blowing of the winds, by rainbows, by circles about the moon and stars, by mists and clouds, and by imaginations in clouds and visions in the air.
~A E Waite & L W de Laurence

Ceraunoscopy, n. Divination by thunder and lightning.
~The Century Dictionary

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The night was filled with insects and a hesitant breeze that seemed to change direction with each gust.
~Abby Geni

The wind did not move one direction. It was a madhouse wind.
~Craig Childs

The wind may alter twenty ways…
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Little Winds and the Bigger Winds gave up their game, and scuttled off before the growing fury, as old Father Wind pulled handfuls of real wind out of his bag and threw them about.
~Sarah Noble Ives

If I could see the wind, it would look orchestral: strands and swirls nested into each other, braiding and springing apart.
~Craig Childs

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Posted From The Grove

Born in a tempest…
This world to me is like a lasting storm…
~William Shakespeare

I’ve always said I was born in the storm. I just had to find a way out of it, find the clearing, and believe the clouds would blow away and the darkness would become something else.
~Aaron Pedersen

When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~Henry Ford

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Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we’ve never faced before.
~Ray Nagin

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
~E W Howe

It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
~Bruce Barton

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
~Morris West

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No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don’t worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.
~Iyanla Vanzant

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.
~Gary Allan

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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
~Annie Dillard

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don’t waste time looking back.
~Leon Brown

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~Tim Minchin: Storm (10:38) quantifiable fact vs immearurable faith, addressed as poetry

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~Eve Peyser: Journaling Is a Good Way to Figure Out Who You Are ● weathering the storm

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The only thing that I can say with any degree of commitment is a reason to be happy is… moderate weather. But then even that gets boring and I find myself wanting a storm.
~Tom Burke

Unprecedented’ is the term I’ve heard most commonly to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. As for me, I would describe it as a storm at sea. Lengthy and ferocious. Uncontrollable. Frightening. All-pervading.
~Mike Parson

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‘Storm Warnings‘ is a poem about powerlessness ‒ about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All ‘we’ can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change still penetrate keyholes and ‘unsealed apertures.’
~Adrienne Rich

Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.
~Diane Ackerman

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I can tell by the way the trees beat,
after so many dull days,
on my worried windowpanes
that a storm is coming…
~Rainer Maria Rilke

I have said my prayer with the forest;
stood to the dark and the rain;
cast my voice on the storm.
~Virginia Garland

I understand the atmosphere better than I ever did before. You feel the thermals while paragliding. You are in the clouds. Chasing a storm puts you in front of the cloud, not a book. I hope to learn as I do these things.
~Ginger Zee

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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
~Josiah Strong

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.
~Harold Ford, Jr

When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
~Frances Beinecke

In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign have rushed to claim that the event was caused by anthropogenic global warming, thereby justifying the president’s program of crushing the economy with regressive carbon taxes, a supposedly necessary measure to prevent future bad weather.
~Robert Zubrin

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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
~John Muir

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§ VIDEO:
Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don’t think I was ready to do a big production like this.
~Ang Lee

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.
~Steven Bochco

As a director, you need the Saul Zaentz type of producers. Zaentz was a guy who literally capped the storm outside of the director so that they could do their job. That’s a great producer.
~Lexi Alexander

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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
~Nancy Gibbs

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode — an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background… For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
~Ben Bernanke

In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
~Cullen Bunn

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Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early ’50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
~Christopher Plummer

I always talk about Meredith and Derrick from ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and I loved them the most when they sort of opened and closed each episode with them in bed, happy with each other, and you didn’t need to insert extra conflict into them, because there was plenty of conflict in the show. So they were this port in the storm of conflict.
~Julie Plec

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I can sketch up a storm, and I’m very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
~Michael Kors

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles ‒ bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture ‒ but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.
~Virginia Postrel

The natural end of an era, as designers whose houses bear their names grow old and pass away, combined with the arrival of digital cameras and Internet exposure, has created a perfect storm.
~Suzy Menkes

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I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
~Gordon Ramsay

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
~Mary MacLane

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I’m ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, ‘Deaf people can dance.’
~Nyle DiMarco

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.
~Remo D’Souza

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Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
~Jerry Saltz

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what’s happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
~Jimmy Smits

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~Salomon Ligthelm: VICTORIA ‘Cempasuchil‘ (3:00) storms of memory and longing

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~Will Kindrick: Storm (11:01) recalibrating romance

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I like storms. It’s Earth’s way of venting.
~The Resident

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The storm is an artist; the rainbow is its masterpiece.
~Matshona Dhliwayo

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For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
~George Gissing

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I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
~Hubert H Humphrey

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
~John Millington Synge

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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
~Charles Kettering

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Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
~Tom Lehrer

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Lightning dances —
Thunder applauds her!
~Terri Guillemets

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The eye, partaking of the quickness of the flashing light, saw in its every gleam a multitude of objects which it could not see at steady noon in fifty times that period… in a trembling, vivid, flickering instant, everything was clear and plain
~Charles Dickens

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The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die—migrate or die.
~Stephen King

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Open the doors. It is warm;
And where the sky was clear—
Look! The head of a storm
That marches here!
Come under the trembling hedge—
Fast, although you fumble
There! Did you hear the edge
Of winter crumble?
~Mark Van Doren

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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
~Hamza Yusuf

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Remember to play after every storm.
~Mattie Stepanek

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§ MUSIC:
How suggestive the sounds of the thunder of waves upon rocks and headlands in a storm. They seem to fill the soul with the noblest of all music. I know nothing more exciting than a storm at sea.
~Henry James Slack

The swirling song of the storm calls to some dim, long-forgotten instinct, which is suddenly unleashed.
~Virginia Garland

I’d go to meetings with record companies ‒ CBS, Decca, EMI. They’d tell me to wear a pair of jeans and grow my hair and look normal. And I’d say, ‘Sod that,’ and storm out. And I do think that belligerence is important when you’re young.
~Gilbert O’Sullivan

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm… where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That’s the juice. That’s where we hit the hardest.
~Watkin Tudor Jones (rapper)

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it ‒ I didn’t want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I’m not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas… his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.
~Angie Thomas

We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it’s fixing their lives. It’s helping. It’s healing. It’s bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.
~Nancy Wilson

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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

A lot of times when you’re making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you’re done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you’re kind of lost in your own storm.
~Robbie Robertson

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Who doesn’t love Enya? Whenever I’m in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I’ll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius.
~Nicki Minaj

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
~John Muir

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~Pink Martini ● Storm Large: And Then You’re Gone (3:00) the kiss-off

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~The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway: Stormy Weather (different song) (5:52) colorized spectacular

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~Etta James: Stormy Weather (3:10) the old hard times

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~Cream: Stormy Monday (8:06) master class in blues guitar, and yes, vocals

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~horintino: Stormy Monday (2:39) barroom blues

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~Cesar Jaimes: Stormy Monday (4:32) dark blue

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.
~Bob Marley

Lightning flashes her blinding passion,
Thunder booms his primal reply.
~Terri Guillemets

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
~Madame Necker

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Rain and wind speak more
than just water and air—
Rain patters hope
Wind whispers let go…
~Terri Guillemets

She left in August after the last rain of the season. Summer storms in the desert are violent things, and clean, they leave you feeling like you have cried.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Storms don’t come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
~Shannon L Alder

Even paradise sees its share of storms, but in the end, it’s still paradise.
~Trevor Driggers

I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms.
~John Geddes

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The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more – but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
~Marianne Williamson

A chill wind
is the most exhilarating
for it often is the storms
that do the cleansing
and the storms
that have the more dramatic beauty
and the storms
that make us stand alone
inside ourselves
arrested, amazed, in awe.
~Kate Lassman

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I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.
~Dan Levy

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Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty…Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.
~Steve Maraboli

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
~Dave Grohl

I have a great support network ‒ my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
~Cara Delevingne

When you’re on top and you lead the parade, everyone’s there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there’s a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
~Sylvester Stallone

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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
~Dean Koontz

Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter’s bedroom and started Brainstormin’ Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
~Hannah Storm

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I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.
~Arjun Kapoor

When I was kid, I couldn’t wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman – beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside… even though I was only 4.
~Ari Graynor

I couldn’t have asked for a better kid. She’s our own little Buddha baby so far. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It’s like the calm before the storm.
~Ana Ortiz

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.
~Romola Garai

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
~Richard Parsons

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‘Did our parents really let us do that?’ is a game my friends and I sometimes play. We remember taking off on bikes alone, playing in the woods for hours, crawling through storm drains to follow creek beds.
~Kim Brooks

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I think Ross Noble [comic] is the only person that I’ve seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.
~Marcus Brigstocke

LIGHTNING One of the current events in heaven.
~Charles Wayland Towne

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
~Dave Barry

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
~Lee Trevino

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I’m gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.
~Storm Reid

Sometimes they work, but his puns… not one in ten did.
~author unknown

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Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with ‘Mr. Roboto‘ on our Walkmans, ‘The Karate Kid‘ in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for ‘storm sewer’ and ‘dishwasher.’
~Jen Lancaster

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‘Red Storm Rising‘.
~Dan Quayle

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.
~Jay London

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
~Thomas Love Peacock

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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn’t care all that much if you live or die.
~Anthony Doerr

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
~Edna St Vincent Millay

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.
~Alfred de Musset

Unfortunately, if you’ve ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you’re out there, you’re in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.
~Norman Schwarzkopf

I love the thunder rumbling, crashing,
Peal after peal along the skies;
While from the clouds the lightning flashing
In deathful splendour, strikes, destroys.
~Jane Welsh

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
~Golda Meir

The lightning streaked across the sky like the heated hands of a skeleton…
~Cynthia Ellingsen

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.
~Charles Dickens

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
~Rose Kennedy

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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
~Victor Davis Hanson

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, ‘I was a rich kid, and America’s been good to me.’
~Max Brooks

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
~Allen West

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.
~Jim Mattis

Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
~Anthony Wayne

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The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.
~Eric Shinseki (Sec of State, 1999 – 2003)

We have the new greatest generation. We don’t need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.
~Joe Wilson (US House – Rep, SC)

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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
~Tariq Ali

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.
~Michael Ignatieff

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As foreign attacks increase, it’s easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It’s what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.
~Greg Gutfeld

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the ‘World Spirit’ touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
~Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

You can’t expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
~Benjamin N Cardozo

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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
~Frederick Douglass

There are times when, the elements being in unusual commotion, those who are bent on daring enterprises, or agitated by great thoughts, whether of good or evil, feel a mysterious sympathy with the tumult of nature, and are roused into corresponding violence. In the midst of thunder, lightning, and storm, many tremendous deeds have been committed; men, self-possessed before, have given a sudden loose to passions they could no longer control. The demons of wrath and despair have striven to emulate those who ride the whirlwind and direct the storm; and man, lashed into madness with the roaring winds and boiling waters, has become for the time as wild and merciless as the elements themselves.
~Charles Dickens

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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
~Mikhail Lermontov

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
~Ilya Yashin

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.
~Daniel Hannan

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi’s undoing, a dictator’s survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.
~Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
~Boris Yeltsin

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
~Tavis Smiley

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In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early ’60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam
~Tom Brokaw

The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties ‒ from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
~Bob Barr

I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
~Jacques Maritain

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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
~Epicurus

Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
~Adolf Hitler

[Politician] is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.
~Richard Cohen

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There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.
~Shannon L Alder

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
~Faye Wattleton

I know that there is a God and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready.
~Abraham Lincoln

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About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown’s birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered, it was massively controversial. A storm of vitriolic protest came from many religious leaders, journalists, politicians, regrettably even other scientists and doctors.
~Robert Winston

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
~Abraham Lincoln

It’s not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can’t fix. You can’t fix water shortages. You can’t storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can’t magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can’t eat it. You can’t shield a bullet.
~Jared Cohen

And we’re in the middle of a ‘perfect storm.’ These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.
~Donna Brazile

I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system — I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
~Naomi Klein

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If Inigo Montoya [Princess Bride] were around now, he wouldn’t need to storm the castle to bring his father’s murderer to justice; the police would do it for him, and fewer people would have to die.
~Paul Bloom

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: ‘Who am I?’
~Gary Ackerman

Why should a poet pray thus? poets scorn
The boundaried love of country, being free
Of winds, and alien lands, and distances,
Vagabonds of the compass, wayfarers,
Pilgrims of thought.
~Vita Sackville-West

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On the coming of that tremendous storm which for eight years desolated our country, Mr. Jefferson hesitated not, halted not.
~John Tyler

I know that there is a God and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready.
~Abraham Lincoln

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
~Abraham Lincoln

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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@Writers Platform

My mind has thunderstorms,
That brood for heavy hours:
Until they rain me words;
My thoughts are drooping flowers
And sulking, silent birds.
Yet come, dark thunderstorms,
And brood your heavy hours;
For when you rain me words,
My thoughts are dancing flowers
And joyful singing birds.
~William H Davies

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling… I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.
~Stephen J Cannell

After tea it’s back to painting – a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
~Gustav Klimt

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.
~Rufus Wainwright

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In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I’d fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It’s still dangerous for me to drive. I’ve driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.
~Hideo Kojima

When I was younger, my mother and I, we’d have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I’d be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I’m writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I’m going through and how I see it.
~Alicia Keys

Books like Munro’s are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
~Ben Dolnick

I’ve been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When ‘American Buffalo’ came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, ‘How dare he use that kind of language!’ Of course I’m alienating the public! That’s what they pay me for.
~David Mamet

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I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.
~Mary Faustina Kowalska

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it.
~Mary J Blige

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Lightning sprang from one cloud to another, nimbler than a squirrel, faster than a splinter cat, quicker than any human thing, excepting maybe a thought in a man’s mind.
~Cid Ricketts Sumner

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
~John Muir

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It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets…
(classic, worst opening line of a book)
~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (not a bad writer)

From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm‘ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.
~Josh Lucas

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Prewritten Prompt: storm

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The storm is like the cry of some god in pain whose love the earth refuses.
~Rabindranath Tagore

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
~Ann Druyan

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, 1
While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don’t need to believe ‒ I know.
~Yossi Ghinsberg

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear.
~Matshona Dhliwayo

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
~Louisa May Alcott

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In a storm, I think, ‘What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?’
~John Wesley

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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§ The Exercise:

Waywardly Home

Shy Leigh, love’s failed rebounder
One broken heart her sole encounter
Silent soul, storm alone, corner renter
Withincast cousin to the Outcast:

Shy A Wei, bitter, cold and bloodied founder
Love’s Wounded Warriors Club: rift propounder
A to Z, by height, first to last
Clouds of suitors gathered fast

Tho her cousin tried to warn her
Sly Lotharios would only harm her
Yet Shy adored the buzz around her
Was left to fade, to cry and founder

Yet love will oft times find a way
And near a lea by the tossing sea
Close by caves of lapping waves
‘Twas ‘neath a tree love finally found her

There’s no wonder we could ponder
Naught but God that weighs profounder
Nothing heals the heart’s break-asunder
But the seal of love feels meant-together

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5s ‘n 7s

high pressure system
totem pole pecking order
sulking in the ranks
time’s up, groveling’s over
storm alarm: it’s thank$ or tank$

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white sheets of lightning
storm like a passion unleashed
that first time we did
fought like caged cougars in heat
twice exhausted, slept like lambs

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trials of the trail
full on thunder Ϟ lightning storm
rain’s taste of the sea
briny cloudburst inside tent
brave the downpour reigning out

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microplastic sludge
merlads mating with mermaids
children of the storm

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stormin’ their ram parts
snipped off like toenails they were
horned, but not horny

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sketchy power grab
redraw-the-map border war
when death stormed on-stage

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storm named after you
your ‘Here I am’ hurricane
mayhem come and gone

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storm cloud horizon
hot tempest in a teacup
elections up next

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braced against the storm
war hawk versus the love dove
embracing the breeze

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no bathroom in sight
tears of frustration want out
not storm but crisis

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fraught storm’s afterglow
from crisis, magnificence
but make-up sex is best

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
~Mahatma Gandhi

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
~Sam Harris

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
~Charles Caleb Colton

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.
~Jaggi Vasudev

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The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
~Robert Jordan

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
~Aesop

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Though the man quarrels with the storm, it still passes over his house.
~Yoruban Proverb

The more violent the storm, the sooner it is over.
~Roman Proverb

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Ride the storm. Cheer wildly. Gather strength from life’s storms.
~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you are strong enough, you can enjoy even in the middle of a storm!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on
across the woods and across time,
and the world looks as if it had no age…
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don’t be ashamed because you’re human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that’s as it should be.
~Tomas Transtromer

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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
~Amelia Barr

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
~Jean Paul

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
~Willa Sibert Cather

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
~Bill Hybels

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Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild.
Tree: I cannot leave this place.
Wind: Then let’s dance.
~Terri Guillemets

Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
~Vincent Van Gogh

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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