White River Flows

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 (1879–1955)

    “No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one’s head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)