Changed Quote by William Stafford

Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?--…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“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

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

— Torquato Tasso

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

— Anonymous

Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a spring in…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly,' I implored: 'let me be content with a temperate draught of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“A Short Story of Falling It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again it is the…

— Alice Oswald

“From Eden’s bowers the full-fed rivers flow, To guide the outcasts to the land of woe: Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields. To…

— George MacDonald

Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken…

— Linda Hogan

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn…

— R. S. Thomas

“Water is strange stuff. It is formless and transparent, and yet we long to be beside it. It has no taste and yet we…

— Bill Bryson

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in…

— Theodore Roethke