River Run

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or run:

“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)

“Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)