Ohio River Valley

Famous quotes containing the words ohio, river and/or valley:

    “Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “All the Valley quivered one extended motion, wind
    undulating on mossy hills”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)