Savage River

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or river:

“Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry:”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“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)