“The present government is a hand stained with blood, which dips a finger in the holy water.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Book II, X
Napoleon the Little (1852)
Source: Clockwork Angel
“The present government is a hand stained with blood, which dips a finger in the holy water.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Book II, X
Napoleon the Little (1852)
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
“Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.”
John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist
Source: Accepting the Universe (1920), p.263
“I drank holy water blessed by the pope. It was mingin.”
Gavin Free (1988) English filmmaker
"Let's Fail - GTA IV" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FG4ooPmmi0. youtube.com. May 16, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
Tim Powers (1952) American writer
The Bible Repairman (p. 2)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther (1905) edited by John Nicholas Lenker; republished as Sermons of Martin Luther (1996), p. 291
John Carder Bush (1944) British artist; brother of Kate Bush
This portion of the track "Jig of Life" on his sister Kate's album Hounds of Love (1985) was actually written as well as spoken by JCB.
Jig of Life (1985)
Context: Can't you see where memories are kept bright?
Tripping on the water like a laughing girl.
Time in her eyes is spawning past life,
One with the ocean and the woman unfurled,
Holding all the love that waits for you here.
Catch us now for I am your future.
A kiss on the wind and we'll make the land.
Come over here to where When lingers,
Waiting in this empty world,
Waiting for Then, when the lifespray cools.
For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,
And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.
We are of the going water and the gone.
We are of water in the holy land of water
And all that's to come runs in
With the thrust on the strand.