Fall River Valley

Famous quotes containing the words fall, river and/or valley:

    I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
    How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed
    Charles Simic (b. 1938)

    Jugful of milk! It was yours years ago
    when I lived in the valley of my bones,
    bones dumb in the swamp. Little playthings.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)