Weir River Estuary

Famous quotes containing the words weir, river and/or estuary:

    “The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.”
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

    “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)

    “I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it
    pours in the great sea.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)