Snake River Fine

Famous quotes containing the words snake, river and/or fine:

    “People can be as greedy as a snake trying to swallow an elephant.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “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)

    “No more the white refulgent streets,
    Never the dry hollows of the mind
    Shall he in fine courtesy walk
    Again, for death is not unkind.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)