River Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

A river without banks is a large puddle.

The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.