Troubled Water Performed

Famous quotes containing the words troubled, water and/or performed:

“Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“It is moot whether there be divinities
As I finish this play by Webster:
The street-cars are still running however
And the katharsis fades in the warm water of a yawn.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)