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Quotes About Water

Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest skyMy mind flies high with joyful laughter.
~ Debasish Mridha
Be fresh like a flower, be loving like water.
~ Debasish Mridha
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.
~ Alexandra Cousteau
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
~ Jose Marti
You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.
~ Virginia Woolf
The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.
~ Derrick Brown
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
~ Emily Dickinson
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
~ Mike May
Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
~ Pliny the Elder
Storm clouds look dark because they are tall and thick. The water droplets inside block out light from the sun.
~ Will Osborne
I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an infusion, which meant that it was vital for the water to be actually boiling when it came into contact with the leaves. He looked at me furiously... I had behaved like this many times before: taking Canute's stance in the path of the great surge of ill-brewed tepid tea that was inundating England.
~ Will Self
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
And I made a rural pen,And I stain'd the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear.
~ William Blake
Instantly, the black water enfolded him, cooled him to his heart, and declared, "There is no hope; there never was." The saints was absolute, and full of the silence of a trapped scream.
~ William Browning Spencer
Instantly, the black water enfolded him, cooled him to his heart, and declared, "There is no hope; there never was." The darkness was absolute, and full of the silence of a trapped scream.
~ William Browning Spencer
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
~ William Butler Yeats
Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.
~ William Butler Yeats
To an Isle in the Water Shy one, shy one, Shy one of my heart, She moves in the firelight Pensively apart. She carries in the dishes, And lays them in a row. To an isle in the water With her would I go. She carries in the candles, And lights the curtained room, Shy in the doorway And shy in the gloom; And shy as a rabbit, Helpful and shy. To an isle in the water With her would I fly.
~ William Butler Yeats
Mothlike in mists, scintillant in the minutebrilliance of cloudless days, with broad bellying sailsthey glide to the wind tossing green waterfrom their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls.
~ William Carlos Williams
sunk mod. comfortably settled at the bottom Workers tried for two days to move a replica of the 17th-century ship Godspeed into the water. Now only the masts and rear deck are visible in the harbor. "We don't consider it sunk," a spokesperson said. "We consider it comfortably settled on the bottom of the river.
~ William D. Lutz
Punch' being of course an Indian word, arriving in the English language via the Hindustani panch (five), a reference to the number of ingredients for the drink, which traditionally were (according to Hobson Jobson) 'arrack, sugar, lime-juice, spice and water'.
~ William Dalrymple