Quotations on / about river

Red river, red river,
Slow flow heat is silence
No will is still as a river
Still.

(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.Nborn—British poet, critic. "Virginia.")
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Iron thoughts came with me
And go with me:
Red river, river, river.

(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.Nborn—British poet, critic. "Virginia.")
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Up a lazy river by the old mill run, that lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun.

(Sidney Arodin, U.S. songwriter. "Lazy River," Peer International Corp. (1931). Music composed by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).)
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There is a great river this side of Stygia,

(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. The River of Rivers in Connecticut (l. 1). . . Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (1976) New Directions.)
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but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,

(Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. July in Washington (l. 15-16). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide

(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 266-269). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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There's an African story of birth where the women gather and send you across the river, and as you walk across this log across the river you head out with these women. As you go across on the narrowest part you're alone. No one can be there with you, and as you emerge onto the other side of the river, all the women who have ever given birth are there to greet you.

(Liz Koch (20th century), U.S. writer and editor. As quoted in Mothering the New Mother, ch. 2 (1994).)
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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

(Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Russian poet. repr. in A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose, ed. and trans. by J. Marin King (1980). Pushkin and Pugachev (1937).)
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