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“Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.”

Life Life Is Water Tiny Instant Lakes Leap Bubbles Inches Trembling Glitter Ripple Blur Minnows

Author:Austin O'Malley

“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.”

Ifs Heart Turns Waiting Water Silence Fire Violence Creation Terrible Rings Forests Burning Instant Lakes Pool Fearful Flash Unafraid Burning Heart

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”

Fall Water Sea Sky Rivers Sight Depth Fishes Currents Boat Instant Streams Visible Lakes Fishing Silver Flash Lightning Rainbow Jewels Gleam Dainty

Author:John Buchan

“Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.”

Past Water Instant Mills

Book:Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew

Source: Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.”

Thinking Water Brain Stupid Healthy Window Angry Add Instant Adrenaline

Author:David Crosby