„The sound of water says what I think.“

— Zhuangzi

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„They say, 'you mean it's just sounds?' thinking that for something to just be a sound is to be useless, whereas I love sounds just as they are, and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don't want them to be psychological. I don't want a sound to pretend that it's a bucket or that it's president or that it's in love with another sound. I just want it to be a sound.“
— John Cage
„The old pond:A frog jumps in,—The sound of the water.“
— Bashō Matsuo
„The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Awakened at midnightby the sound of the water jarcracking from the ice“
— Bashō Matsuo
„I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself… and let sound contribute toward me.“
— Walt Whitman
„I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.“
— Flannery O’Connor