From Dante to the Bible
"...Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... "
Richard Wilbur "A baroque wall fountain in the Villa Sciarra"
"For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light do we see light."
Psalms 36:9
"The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death "
Proverbs 13:14
"A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden as a fountain, and there it divided and became four rivers (an inspiration for the four rivers fountain of Italy) "
Genesis 2:10
"A poet I will return, and at my baptismal fountain I will take the laurel crown"
Dante, Paradiso XXV, 1-9 translated by Andre Vivante
"A garden locked, a fountain sealed... a garden fountain, a well of living water and flowing streams from Lebanon "
Song of Solomon 4:12
"Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being."
Nicola Salvi, c. 1732
"Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as the water from a fountain. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass the fountain"
Lao-Tze, Ancient Chinese Philosopher