“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.”

“Broadway — the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.”

“One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
And on that day, nothing clever to say.”

“I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away.”

“Baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears.”

“You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.”

“How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.”

“I believed in her body, I didn't believe in her soul. I though of Lola as a charming goldbrick, miles away from the war, miles away from life.”

“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.”