Famous quotes containing the words wells and/or river:
“‘But where can we draw water,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There’s nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)