White River Flows

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

    “O, white pear,
    your flower-tufts
    thick on the branch
    bring summer and ripe fruits
    in their purple hearts.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “I counted two and seventy stenches,
    All well defined and several stinks!
    Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks,
    The river Rhine, it is well known,
    Doth wash your city of Cologne;
    But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine
    Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)