| | | More quotes on water, fountains and waterfallsMore water fountains quotes...page 2 | My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred,
And I myself see not the bottom of it. - William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Achilles, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 3, l. 308-9. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred,
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled.
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. - William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Katherina, in The Taming of the Shrew, act 5, sc. 2, l. 142-5. Katherine lectures the angry (”moved”) widow; “ill-seeming” = ugly.
Fountains and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Join voices all ye living souls, ye birds,
That singing up to heaven gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise;
Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep;
Witness if I be silent, morn or even,
To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade
Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still
To give us only good; and if the night
Have gathered aught of evil or concealed,
Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. - John Milton
Attribution: John Milton (1608–1674), British poet. Paradise Lost (l. Bk. V, l. 195–208). . . The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.
Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 124, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Second Part, “On the Rabble,” (1883).
Here at the fountain’s sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-tree’s mossy root,
Casting the body’s vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
There, like a bird, it sits and sings,
Then whets and combs its silver wings,
And, till prepared for longer flights,
Waves in its plumes the various light. - Andrew Marvell
Attribution: Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), British poet. The Garden (l. 49–56). . . The Complete Poems [Andrew Marvell]. Elizabeth Story Donno, ed. (1972, repr. 1985) Penguin.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Attribution: Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (c. 99–55 B.C.), Roman poet, philosopher. De Rerum Natura, bk. 4.
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love. - Anonymous
Attribution: Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 5:18-19.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. - Jean Cocteau
Attribution: Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French author, filmmaker. Esquire (New York, Feb. 1961).
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Friendship,” Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows. - William Blake
Attribution: William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 8, “Proverbs of Hell,” (1790-1793).
No fountain from its rocky cave
E’er tripped with foot so free;
She seemed as happy as a wave
That dances on the sea. - William Wordsworth
Attribution: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. The Two April Mornings (l. 49–52). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.
Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain-head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays; - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. writer. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
Don’t say, don’t say there is no water.
That fountain is there among its scalloped
green and gray stones,
it is still there and always there.... - Denise Levertov
Attribution: Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. “The Fountain.”
Let us erect in the Basin a lofty fountain.
Suckled on ponds, the spirit craves a watery mountain. - Wallace Stevens
Attribution: Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. “New England Verses.”
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What is pink? A rose is pink
By the fountain’s brink. - Christina Georgina Rossetti Attribution: Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894), British poet. What Is Pink? (Sing-Song) (l. 1–2). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press.
So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 203, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
Seven roses later splashes the fountain. - Paul Celan [Paul Antschel]
Attribution: Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970), Austrian poet. Trans. 1971, Persea Books (1989). Poems of Paul Celan, “Crystal,” (1952).
No fountain from its rocky cave
E’er tripped with foot so free;
She seemed as happy as a wave
That dances on the sea. - William Wordsworth
Attribution: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. The Two April Mornings (l. 49–52). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.
Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain-head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays; - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. writer. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
Don’t say, don’t say there is no water.
That fountain is there among its scalloped
green and gray stones,
it is still there and always there.... - Denise Levertov
Attribution: Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. “The Fountain.”
So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources. - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 203, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived from the very God who bade them be not conscious of it. - D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Attribution: D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Originally published by T. Seltzer (1921). Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, ch. 1, Viking Compass (1960).
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise. - W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
Attribution: W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. In Memory of W. B. Yeats (l. 62–65). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.
Never since the middle summer’s spring
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By pavèd fountain or by rushy brook,
Or in the beachèd margent of the sea
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport. - William Shakespeare Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Titania, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 2, sc. 1, l. 82-7. The quarrel between Oberon and Titania has gone on since the beginning of summer; a “paved” fountain flows over stones; “margent” means margin, and “ringlets” are circular dances that mark the grass with fairy rings.
To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor is it discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil. - George Gordon Noel Byron Attribution: George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, cto. 3, st. 69 (1812-1818).
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