America is a great story and there is a river on every…

“By the time that poem became the story “River of Names,”* I had made the decision to reverse that process: to claim my family,…

— Dorothy Allison

The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in…

— Hilda Conkling

“A river starts by longing for the ocean...”

— Will Advise

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let…

— Joanne Harris

Our bodies are molded rivers.

— Novalis

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

— Christina Rossetti

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

— Blaise Pascal

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

— Emile Hirsch

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

— Brian Morton

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

— William Shakespeare

And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go…

— John Dyer

The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a…

— Kekla Magoon

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

— Rumi

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi…

— Antony Gormley

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

— Niall Williams