“struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature.”
“Every piece of ice is inevitable ordained to melt in its own water.”
“The ice has to face the heatand melt to reach the Ocean.”
“I turn back to the lake, stare at the ice slowly moving on the surface of the water. Pieces of the solid fall into the liquid, but it's all just water no matter what its form.”
“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”