White River Flows

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

    “I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
    Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
    There I was told: we have too many churches,
    And too few chop-houses.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “I stand by your portal,
    a white pillar,
    luminous.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
    —Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)

    “It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
    Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,”
    —Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)