Murmurs

Famous quotes containing the word murmurs:

“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.”
—Mary Webb (1881–1927)

“The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks; many a poet’s stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)