Water Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:

“Eternal Venice sinking by degrees
Into the very water that she lights;”
—Edgar Bowers (b. 1924)

“When I woke, the town spoke.
Birds and clocks and cross bells
Dinned aside the coiling crowd,
The reptile profligates in a flame,
Spoilers and pokers of sleep....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)