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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.”

Ifs Heart Made Beautiful Water Thousand Fairs Lonely Sight Delight Tongue Spots Grandeur Wondrous Sparkle Mirth

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”

Art Stills Soul America Speak Water Travel Sitting Tongue Kingdoms Painter Dust Ruins Recalls Sculpture Pilgrim Shrines Sandals

Book:Sacred Poems

Source: Sacred Poems

“Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.”

Giving May Two Choices Water Food Give Me Hot Cooking Add Tongue Tea Culinary Pot Milk Baths Toasts Butlers Nightingales Caviar Truffles

Book:Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

Source: Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

“I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.”

Wells I Can Speak Water Can Do Mouths Tongue Sentiments

Book:Dust tracks on a road

Source: Dust tracks on a road

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.”

Turns Water Answers Poor Lord Spring Flow Rivers Israel Tongue Desert Height Valleys Pool Thirst Needy Barren Forsake

Author:Isaiah