River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love… — William Butler Yeats
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have… — Rabindranath Tagore
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.… — William Stafford
Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp… — Catherine Anderson
...a river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new place. If you get into the river and let it… — Andrew Kaufman
I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no… — Tristan Tzara
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century… — Henry Rollins
They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water.… — T.H. White
Do not listen to her," Alaric said. "She is going to tell you in some kind of code only the two of you will understand,… — Meg Cabot
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss — Langston Hughes
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber — Patricia Grasso
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.” She paused, not sure if… — Ilona Andrews
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the… — Tim O'Brien
You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you. — Beth Kephart
Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed,… — John Milton
Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"… — Libba Bray
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of… — William Faulkner
Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me… — Francesca Lia Block
We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know… — Gary Shteyngart
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the… — Roberto Bolano

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