Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“...is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude. And stretch towards the heaven their long and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And by the shores of the river Zaire there is neither quiet nor silence. "It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.”

— Claude Monet

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

“I followed the river to the shallows where it spoke of its bed, in whispering tones as gentle as the sun's growing warmth.”

— Anonymous

“I am told that in the heart of a vast, bowl-shaped valley deep inside the High Pamir where the sheep and the goats spend…

— Greg Mortenson

“The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at…

— Stephen Mitchell

“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“What are you and your white horse doing next to my lake? What is it that you want? You are waking up my water…

— Àlex Rovira

“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There is a willow grows aslant the brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; therewith fantastic garlands did she make of…

— William Shakespeare