“Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
“Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Lou Reed (1942–2013) American musician
What's Good Full lyrics online http://www.lyricsforall.com/display/lyric/7312/2147393643/Lou+Reed/What%27s+Good/ <br class="br">Lyrics
“Life is only a flicker of melted ice.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Rain of the Absolute,” p. 25
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On how Apple is the largest developer for Microsoft Windows due to the popularity of its iTunes software, at the All Things Digital Conference 5 (30 May 2007) http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-jobs-live-from-d-2007/, on stage with Bill Gates, Kara Swisher and Walter Mossberg. <br class="br">2000s
“All this ice got me feelin like a polar bear.”
Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman
Kush
Official Mix tapes, The Leak (2007)
James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time
Variant: To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
Source: The Fire Next Time