Dirty water Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Puddles were weak. Puddles were transparent, with all their secrets and imperfections clearly visible to observers standing above them. Puddles could be stepped on…

— Juliana Gray

“An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy footprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.”

— Confucius

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

— e. e. cummings

“Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)?”

— Lao Tzu

“When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.”

— Simon Van Booy

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

— Thomas M. Disch

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

— Anonymous

“There is no ending, no neatness... where water is concerned. It is wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous; it is dark and carries the mud, and…

— Lauren Groff

“Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.”

— A.R. Ammons

“Man was made of a little mud and water. Could not a woman be made of dew, earthen mists and beams of light, condensed…

— Jacques Cazotte

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

— Laozi