Watery

Famous quotes containing the word watery:

“Yes! in sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

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

“Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)