Watery

Famous quotes containing the word watery:

“Let us erect in the Basin a lofty fountain.
Suckled on ponds, the spirit craves a watery mountain.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptune’s diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

“the whole sea become an entanglement of watery bodies
lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,

beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up
they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising
in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)