Date: c. 501 B.C.
"For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water."
preview | full record— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"It is as it were the interpretation of a diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)