Famous quotes containing the words virgin and/or river:
“The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)