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Topic·River✕clear

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

1212

★ 1.9

Poem · Magazine

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers · 1921

★ 3.6

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

1921

★ 5.3

Novella · Autobiography and memoir

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

A River Runs Through It · 1976

★ 5.3

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.

★ 7.0