Red River Parish

Famous quotes containing the words red, river and/or parish:

“From behind the red gates comes the stink of wine and meat, while along the road sides lie the bones of the frozen dead.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)

“My stardust melody, the memory of love’s refrain.”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)