Quotes About Water

El corazón Que tenía en la escuela Donde estuvo pintada La cartilla primera ¿Está en ti Noche negra Frío frío Como el agua Del río. El primer beso Que supo a beso y fue Para mis labios niños Como la lluvia fresca ¿Está en ti Noche negra

The golden girl bathed in the water and the water turned gold

Caracola" They've bought me a shell. It sings inside a sea on a map. My heart fills up with water with a little fish shadow & silver. They've brought me a shell.

There are dewdrops on the nightingale's wings, bright beads of moon distilled by hope. On the marble fountain is the kiss of water, dream of humble stars...

Agua,dónde vas? Riyendo voy por el río a las orillas del mar. Mar,adónde vas? Río arriba voy buscando fuente donde descansar. Chopo, y tú,qué harás? No quiero decirte nada. Yo,temblar! Qué deseo, qué no deseo, por el río y por la mar!!

Bajo el agua siguen las palabras. Sobre el agua una luna redonda se baña, dando envidia a la otra ¡tan alta! En la orilla, un niño, ve las lunas y dice: ¡Noche, toca los platillos!

Sobre el rostro del aljibe se mecía la gitana. Verde carne, pelo verde, con ojos de fría plata. Un carámbano de luna la sostiene sobre el agua. La noche se puso íntima como una pequeña plaza. Over the mouth of the cistern the gypsy girl was swinging, green flesh, her hair green, with eyes of cold silver. An icicle of moon holds her up above the water. The night became intimate like a little plaza.

Yo había matado la quinta luna y bebían agua por las fuentes los abanicos y los aplausos

The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.) - The Little Mute Boy Translated by William S. Merwin

Entonces supe, por primera vez, que hay que cultivar los recuerdos en el agua, que el agua elabora lo que en ella se refleja y que recibe el pensamiento. En caso de desesperación no hay que entregar el cuerpo al agua; hay que entregar a ella el pensamiento; ella lo penetra y él nos cambia el sentido de la vida.

Yo debo tener esperanzas como de paso, vertiginosas, si es posible, y no pensar demasiado en que se cumplan; ese debe ser, también, el sentido del agua, su inclinación instintiva.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

El agua es, sin duda, todo lo que se ha dicho que es: unión, transporte, intercambio y acercamiento; pero a condición de que el hombre consienta en ello, y más aún, a condición de que esté dispuesto a pagar lo que cuesta.

La noche se tendía a descansar sobre la tierra, y era una noche de estancias negras, transparentes y redondas: más negras, más anchas y menos transparentes mientras más lejanas; estancias como las ondas del agua de un pozo donde hubiera caído el mundo.

Nothingness is the stuff of thought. Beings, autonomous voices, memories dredged up, following the lapping of the water. Nothingness is not empty.

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There was a reek in her nose, a slick dark green smell of water that was old enough to be clever and dangerous.

Hathin stared out across the water and deliberately let her eyes unfocus slightly. It did no good lodging your gaze on the waves as they slid and fractured. The trick was to see nothing and everything, until you started to notice any tear or break in the rhythms of the water.

Over its waters the willows drooped their long hair, bucking in the gusts as if with sobs. Against the dark surface she could make out the white waterlily buds, like small hands reaching up from beneath the surface.

The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.

The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are called by God to bring the water of life for both soul and body. God created them both, and His purpose is to redeem them both.

I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!

I'm a whisper in water.

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