River Styx

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or styx:

    “Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
    For there the mystical brotherhood
    Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
    And river and stream work out their will....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “In your presence, I swear by the Styx and the Acheron never more to wear glasses on my bonnet, nor a codpiece on my breeches, until, concerning my undertaking, I have heard the word of the Divine Bottle.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)