White River Flows

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

    “With his great white strong cold squares of teeth
    And his little eyes of stone ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed;
    I strove against the stream and all in vain;
    Let the great river take me to the main.
    No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
    Ask me no more.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “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)