
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: All Respects to Heaven, I Like it Here
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove
“We hoped to join like fish and water once:
instead, we're split apart—a stream, a cloud.”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 115–116
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
1960s, The Fields of David Smith,' (1999)