Quotes About Mistral

For us, these five poets formed an alchemist mandala: Neruda was water, Parra air, de Rokha fire, Mistral earth, and Huidobro, in the center, quintessence.

It got this hot in the south of France, but it was a dry heat, cooled and tempered by the mistral and scented with the powerful fragrances of lavender, thyme, and rosemary. Here the air was so thick I could practically see it and the smell was the dank chemical odor of soil and plants and grass decomposing

todos admiran solamente las auroras boreales, y las auroras australes de la Patagonia son muy hermosas,

maybe into a mistral, the wind that can make you crazy, so that in France you can be acquitted if you kill someone while it's blowing.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Did I tell you that I had sent the drawings to friend Russell? At the moment I am doing practically the same ones again for you, there will be twelve likewise. You will then see better what there is in the painted studies in the way of drawing. I have already told you that I always have to fight against the mistral, which makes it absolutely impossible to be master of your stroke. That accounts for the "haggard" look of the studies.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.