“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

The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990)

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Guyanese writer 1921–2018

Wilson Harris (1921–2018) Guyanese writer

The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990)

“Deep rivers run quiet.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“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

River by Ellis Paul

“Run like the river.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Source: Gregor the Overlander Box Set

“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

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV, The Worship of Aesculapius (1700), lines 155–156.

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

Norman Maclean (1902–1990) American author and scholar

"A River Runs Through It", p. 161
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Context: Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.