“Soon, at a torrent's banks, I find its flood
blocks my advance while bandits follow me.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
E giungo ad un torrente, e riserrato
Quinci da i ladri son, quindi dal rio.
Canto XII, stanza 34 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“O water of the river Ganges, thou rememberst the day
When our torrent flooded thy valleys...”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Source: quoted in Annemarie Schimmel - Gabriel's Wing_ Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1989, Iqbal Academy) also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
“Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all
My worries seem so very small
With my waterfall.”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
May This Be Love
Song lyrics, Are You Experienced? (1967)
Joan Miró (1893–1983) Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
Miro describes his 'attacks' on the canvas
Quote of Miró in his 'Working notes, 1941 – 1942'; as cited in Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 69
1940 - 1960
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
attributed to a Muir "autobiographical notebook" in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (1945), page 144
1870s
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) English Earl
"The Lover Comforteth Himself with the Worthiness of his Love", line 1.
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) Russian philosopher
117
Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book One (The Call) (1924)
“I touch God in my song
as the hill touched the far-away sea
with its waterfall.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
42
Fireflies (1928)
“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
As quoted in "Special Section: They Are Fated to Succeed" in TIME magazine (2 January 1978) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915860,00.html <br class="br">1970s
