Answer:
To cross the water I'm the way, for water I'm above. I touch it not and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move.
Do you know what you can hold without ever touching it?
There are two meanings to me. With one I may need to be broken, with the other I hold on. My favorite characteristic is my charming dimple.
You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
What is the freedom of birds and the pen of old men?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.