White River Flows

Famous quotes containing the words white, river and/or flows:

    “Flower sent to flower;
    for white hands, the lesser white,
    less lovely of flower leaf.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)

    “To be an editor, as I was.
    Then to lie here close by the river over the place
    Where the sewage flows from the village,
    And the empty cans and garbage are dumped,
    And abortions are hidden.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)