Wind River Indian

Famous quotes containing the words wind, river and/or indian:

    “The wind shifts like this:
    Like a human without illusions,
    Who still feels irrational things within her.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I counted two and seventy stenches,
    All well defined and several stinks!
    Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks,
    The river Rhine, it is well known,
    Doth wash your city of Cologne;
    But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine
    Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
    —Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)