Savage River

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or river:

“Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)