Rivers

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

Heraclitus

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Topic

The only constant is change Change Rivers

Author

Heraclitus

Medium

Presocratic fragment Fragment

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Greek

Time

5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B12.

Current Citation

Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, DK B12.

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

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Topic

Rivers Life experience Acquiring wisdom

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 1.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all things Rivers

Author

Norman Maclean

Source

A River Runs Through It

Medium

Novella

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Killing time Rivers

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 12.

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

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Topic

Rivers

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Crisis

Medium

Poem Magazine

Statement Type

Vision

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

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.

Kamo no Chomei

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Topic

Rivers Water The only constant is change Impermanence The human condition

Author

Kamo no Chomei

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Japanese

Time

1212 1210s 13th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kamo no Chomei. 方丈記 [An Account of My Hut]. c. 1212.