These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It’s quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
Camille Pissaro
The world turns softly
Not to spill its lakes and rivers,
The water is held in its arms
And the sky is held in the water.
What is water,
That pours silver,
And can hold the sky?
Hilda Conkling
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves.
Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain’s beauty.
Tomorrow I too will float away.
My reflection gone from cool streams.
Cheng Man-ch’ing
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Arthur Golden
If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.
Loren Eisley
We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.
Deborah Smith