Weir River Estuary

Famous quotes containing the words weir, river and/or estuary:

    The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

    the folk-lore
    Of each of the senses; call it, again and again,
    The river that flows nowhere, like a sea.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it
    pours in the great sea.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)