#water

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. ↗

— Du Fu

#crystal #damp #heart #rains #spring

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ↗

— Horace

#drinkers #live #long #please #poems

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#broken #doubt #expectancy #flowery #hesitation

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. ↗

— Jack Hannah

#got #just #now #oil #people

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory. ↗

— Earl Hines

#audience #back #challenge #deep #get

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home. ↗

— James Kidd

#about #destiny #etc #fish #james

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#exhilaration #grace #inspiration #mysticism #nature

Take the time to plant seeds even if you're unsure if they'll grow; who knows, maybe all it takes is for someone else to come along and water it. ↗

— Kai Mann

#inspiration #kai-mann #quote #seeds #water

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#characters #complicated #immensely #novel #scandal

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#came #compassion #fallow #fields #had