With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi. — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
“To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
