Famous quotes containing the words white, river and/or flows:
“Then came Corinna in a long loose gown,
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down,
Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed,”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“the folk-lore
Of each of the senses; call it, again and again,
The river that flows nowhere, like a sea.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above ones head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)
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