With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the co…

- William Alexander Percy

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one crea…

- William Alexander Percy

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be…

- William Alexander Percy

As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Toler…

- William Alexander Percy

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

- William Alexander Percy

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplicati…

- William Alexander Percy