Rivers Quotes

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Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing. — Ming-Dao Deng
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food. — Henry Ward Beecher
Praise the sea; on shore remain. — John Florio
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River. — Matsuo Basho
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I… — Pablo Neruda
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being… — Benjamin Hoff
I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my… — Theodore Roethke
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it… — William Shakespeare
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field. — Edwin Arnold
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. — H. M. Tomlinson
In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one. — Yosa Buson
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The… — Wallace Stevens
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most… — William Cowper

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