East

East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.

Quotes

• Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
  Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
  But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
  When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
  • Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West.

• The East bowed low before the blast,
  In patient deep disdain;
  She let the legions thunder past,
  And plunged in thought again.
  • —Obermann Once More, Matthew Arnold. Quoted from S.R. Goel, (1994) Heroic Hindu resistance to Muslim invaders, 636 AD to 1206 AD.

See also

• East wind
• North wind
• South wind
• West wind

External links

Encyclopedic article on East on Wikipedia