Pearl River West

Famous quotes containing the words pearl, river and/or west:

    “I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
    Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
    And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)

    “It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;
    I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)