Red River Parish

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

“I am so tired of being a bachelor
I could give all my heart to that Red Moll
That had but the one eye.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“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)