London Bridge over the Colorado River in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (United States)

The moon is a charring ember

Dying into the dark;

Off in the crouching mountains

Coyotes bark.

The stars are heavy in heaven,

Too great for the sky to hold --

What if they fell and shattered

The earth with gold?

No lights are over the mesa,

The wind is hard and wild,

I stand at the darkened window

And cry like a child.

Night in Arizona

Sara Teasdale

Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge across the Colorado River near Las Vegas, between Nevada and Arizona (United States)

Standing on the edge
Of the Hoover Dam
I'm on the center line
Right between two states of mind
And if the wind from the traffic
Should blow me away

From this altitude it will come back to you
And do you know the time?
All that's left of me is slight insanity
What's on the right, I don't know

Letra de la anción Hoover Dam

Grupo Sugar

Navajo Bridge spanning the Colorado River near Lee's Ferry, Arizona (United States)

The thing that gets you - that gets everyone - is the silence. The Grand Canyon just swallows sound. The sense of space and emptiness is overwhelming. Nothing happens out there. Down below you on the canyon floor, far, far away, is the thing that carved it: the Colorado River. 

Bill Bryson

about the Colorado Canyon

in The Lost Continent

Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge over the Colorado River between the states of Arizona and Nevada (United States)

"This morning I came, I saw and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind."

Theodore Roosevelt

at the Inauguration of Hoover Dam