Tea-cup Quotes

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. (W. H. Auden)
But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens; A lane to the land of the dead. View quote
W. H. Auden