“Deep rivers run quiet.”

“The flute sings of an ancient riverbead one hundred fathoms deep, far below the Potaro River that runs to the Waterfall. Two rivers then. The visible Potaro runs to the Waterfall. The invisible stream of the river of the dead runs far below, far under our knees. The flute tells of the passage of the drowned river of the dead and the river of the living are one quantum stream possessed of four banks.”

Wilson Harris (1921–2018) Guyanese writer

“I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“No…Please don't go…No…Please don't leave yet
You haven't heard my band yet
You haven't seen my house
You cannot understand yet
What it means to be old
River run
River deep
River come, So I can sing you to sleep.”

River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist

“Run like the river.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“And they say he's too young to surrender
And they cry out, and they call him by name.
Their graffiti tells how he's remembered.
Still, the River runs on just the same. Run River, run.”

River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

“Dicko: The mountain was too high, the river too deep. Cabaret.”

Hayley Jensen (1983) Australian singer

“A luxury of deep repose! the heart
Must surely beat in quiet here.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist