Brook

Famous quotes containing the word brook:

“When the enterprising burglar isn’t burgling,
When the cut-throat isn’t occupied in crime,
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling,
And listen to the merry village chime.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“deep in the manhood his childhood
so swiftly led to, a small brook rock-leaping
into the rapt, imperious, seagoing river.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923, Anglo–U.S. poet. “The Son.”