White River Flows

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

    “On white linen the silk
    of gray shadows ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)