Small Stream Flowing

Famous quotes containing the words small, stream and/or flowing:

    Sweet death, small son, our instrument
    Of immortality,
    Your cries and hungers document
    Our bodily decay.
    Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    Is there not
    An art, a music, and a stream of words
    That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)