Ripples

Famous quotes containing the word ripples:

“As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
As I wended the shores I know,
As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“The road became a channel running flocks
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)