Famous quotes containing the words north, red, river and/or township:
“Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The love that kisses with a homicide
In robes of red generation resurrects.”
—George Barker (b. 1913)
“There is a great river this side of Stygia,”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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