Best water & swans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.”

Turns Black Water White Bears Ocean Legs Flood Coal Scorn Swans Hue

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”

World Earth Water Divine Wall Cold Kissing Shadow Rose Winter Yellow Bent Alas Ponds Swans

Author:Friedrich Holderlin

“Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.”

May Water Leaving Sand Milk Sugar Mixtures Ants Swans

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.”

Water Sweet Sight Thee Swans Avon

Author:Ben Jonson

“Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!”

Ifs Water White Dirty Neat Swans Dirty Water

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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