liquid quotes

   Purpose apart, perched like an umpire, dozes, Dreams golden balls whirring through indigo. Clay blurs the whitewash but day still encloses The albinos, bonded in their flick and flow. Playing in musicked gravity, the pair Score liquid Euclids in foolscaps of air.

- Margaret Avison
  Winter Sun,'Tennis'.

And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Sweeney among the Nightingales'.

Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.

-Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame Frame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

I couldn't eat, just went on drinking coffee, and sweating it out again. Liquid had no time to be digested; it came through the pores long before it reached the stomach. I lay wet through with sweat for four hoursit was very nearly like happiness.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
  In Mexico. The Lawless Roads (published in the US as Another Mexico).

The Doctorissaidalsotohaveinventedanextraordinary weapon which will make war less brutal. It is described as a very powerful liquid which rots braces at a distance of a mile.

-Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
  'Bracerot'.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.

- A(rthur) S(eymour) J(ohn) Tessimond
'Cats', pt.2.