Al Alvarez Quotes, Men Quotes, Water Quotes

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.

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"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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