Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literatureOne cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.Heraclitus★ 7.0
PoemI'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 Hughes1921★ 5.3
Novella · Autobiography and memoirEventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It · 1976★ 5.3
Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novelIt 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.Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884★ 3.9