Famous quotes containing the words white and/or river:
“As if that hand
squeezing crow’s blood
against a white sky
beside an idiot’s laughing face
were real.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
—Michele Murray (1933–1974)