calm water Quotes

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.