Holy River

Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or river:

“Even the newts are white,

Those holy Joes.
And the fish, the fish—
Christ! they are panes of ice.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
—Michele Murray (1933–1974)