Cloud River Bats

Famous quotes containing the words cloud, river and/or bats:

    “Humorists are always pessimists. They’re reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
    Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
    There I was told: we have too many churches,
    And too few chop-houses.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
    My heart would brim with dreams about the times
    When we bent down above the fading coals
    And talked of the dark folk who live in souls
    Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)