Mills Wall River

Famous quotes containing the words mills, wall and/or river:

    Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

    I make myself this time
    Of wood or granite or lime
    A wall too hard for crime
    Either to breach or climb....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    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)