Famous quotes containing the words white and/or river:
“I stand by your portal,
a white pillar,
luminous.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“At sundown, leaving the river road awhile for shortness, we went by way of Enfield, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference, it seemed to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)