Quotes About Water

The water as a topic of conversation dried up.

Water!' cried Marie. 'Vinegar!' recommended the bell-boy. 'Eu-de-Cologne!' said Bill. 'Pepper!' said Lord Tidmouth. Mary had another suggestion. 'Give her air!' So had the bell-boy. 'Slap her hands!' Lord Tidmouth went further. 'Sit on her head!' he advised.

It seems rummy that water should be so much wetter when you go into it with your clothes on than when you're just bathing, but take it from me that it is.

Love is the mystery of water and a star.

Oh, love is a journey with water and stars, with drowning air and storms of flour: love is a clash of lightnings, two bodies subdued by one honey.

Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon, thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light, what obscure brilliance opens between your columns? What ancient night does a man touch with his senses? Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

No one will retrieve my lost heart amidst so many roots, in the bitter freshness of the sun multiplied by the fury of the water, there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.

I asked of every thing if it had something more, something more than shape and form, and I learned that way that nothing is empty-- everything is a box, a train, a boat loaded with implications, every foot that walked along a path left a telegram written in the stone, and clothes in the washing water dripped out their whole existence. -from Investigations

Quiero saltar al agua para caer al cielo. (Agua dormida)

I know, I know, but here beside the water while the locusts chitter and sparkle, although they are waiting, I want to wait for myself. I too want to watch myself. I want to discover at last my own feelings. And when I reach the place where I am waiting, I expect to fall asleep, dying of laughter.

El agua anda descalza por las calles mojadas.

You, I remember as you were last autumn. You were the gray beret and the heart in calm. In your eyes clashed the flames of twilight. And the leaves would fall in the water of your soul.

But you and I, love, we are together from our clothes down to our roots: together in the autumn, in water, in hips, until we can be alone together—only you, only me.

Huntress of the depths of my eyes, your plunder stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.

Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos, juntos desde la ropa a las raíces, juntos de otoño, de agua, de caderas, hasta ser sólo tú, sólo yo juntos. — Mas tu e eu, amor meu, estamos juntos, juntos desde a roupa às raízes, juntos de outono, de água, de quadris, até ser só tu, só eu juntos.

Estrellas Cuando en el cielo las estrellas desestiman el firmamento y se van a dormir de dia, las estrellas de agua saludan al cielo enterrado en el mar inaugurando los deberes del nuevo cielo submarino

Mas se amo os teus pés É só porque andaram Sobre a terra e sobre O vento e sobre a água, Até me encontrarem.

Juntos tú y yo, amor mío, sellamos el silencio, mientras destruye el mar sus constantes estatuas y derrumba sus torres de arrebato y blancura, porque en la trama de estos tejidos invisibles del agua desbocada, de la incesante arena, sostenemos la única y acosada ternura.

For the people of my country, Renato said, water is everything: love, life, religion... even God. It is like that for me too, I said. In English we call that a metaphor. Of course, said Renato, and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.

Xochimilco in Mexico, where skies, mountains, and poplars are reflected

You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult.