River State Fish

Famous quotes containing the words river, state and/or fish:

    “It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
    —Michele Murray (1933–1974)

    “The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
    With silver claws and silver eye;
    And moveless fish in the water gleam,
    By silver reeds in a silver stream.”
    —Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)