riverbed quotes

Fumbling silence in the White House seeps out over the country like a cold fog over a river bed where no stream runs.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Letter to Harry S  Truman, 28 May, alluding to the Eisenhower administration. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

The riverbed, dried-up, half full of leaves. Us, listening to a river in the trees.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  TheHaw Lantern,'ForBernard and Jane McCabe', complete poem.