Purple-prose Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

“Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a…

— sherman kennon

“Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“ Foggy little oxbows Forest pools where no one goes Lost links of the river dreaming dreams ”

— Erin Bow

“I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the great number of its…

— Gaston Bachelard

“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed…

— Paulo Coelho

“Memory Mémoire I Bright water; like the brine of childish tears, the whiteness of women’s bodies against the sun; silken mobs of pure lilies…

— translated by Dennis J. Carlile

“I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously…

— George Saunders

“In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams.”

— Robert Kaplan

“It was on the warmest days when I saw them most clearly, days when the sun dawdled high in the sky, tinting everything with…

— Hazel Gaynor

“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

“Across the river, fields of poppies stretched along the bank, the delicate scarlet heads dancing in the breeze, carefree and flourishing.”

— Bella Forrest

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle All through the meadows…

— Anonymous