Spoon River Valley

Famous quotes containing the words spoon river, spoon, river and/or valley:

“by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed—
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
And passed to a sweet repose.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”
—Welsh proverb.

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

“Over the mountains of the moon, down the valley of the shadow. Ride, boldly ride, the shade replied, in search of El Dorado.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)