Famous quotes containing the words public and/or water:
“The Muse is mute when public men
Applaud a modern throne.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I am no Poet here; my pen ‘s the spout,
Where the rain water of my eyes run out,
In pity of that name, whose fate wee see
Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography:
The Muses are not Mer-maids, though upon
His death the Ocean might turn Helicon”
—John Cleveland (1613–1658)