Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

-Dudek, Louis
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

I'm Gonna WashThat Man Right Outa My Hair.

-Hammerstein, Oscar, II
   Title of song sung by Mitzi Gaynor in South Pacific (music by Richard Rodgers).

An' it all goes into the laundry But it never comes out in the wash.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Stellenbosh'.

Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.

-Sigourney, Lydia Howard ne¤  e Huntley
  Select Poems,'Indian Names'.

O Oisin, mount by me and ride To shores by the wash of the tremulous tide, Where men have heaped no burial-mounds, And the days pass by like a wayward tune.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'TheWanderings of Oisin', l.80^3.