Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or river:
“After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)