Waters

Famous quotes containing the word waters:

“And more I may not write of, for they that cleave
The waters of sleep can make a chattering tongue
Heavy like stone, their wisdom being half silence.
How shall I name you, immortal, mild, proud shadows?
I only know that all we know comes from you,
And that you come from Eden on flying feet.
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–c. 475 B.C.)

“Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows,
The dead turns up its eye....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)