Nas Patuxent River

Famous quotes containing the words nas and/or river:

    “A clerk ther was of Oxenford also
    That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
    As leene was his hors as is a rake,
    And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
    But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “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)