Blue Mountain Lake

Famous quotes containing the words blue mountain, blue, mountain and/or lake:

    “The extra worry began it—on the
    Blue blue mountain—she never set foot
    And then and there. Meanwhile the host
    Mourned her quiet tenure. They all stayed chatting.
    No one did much about eating.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Tommy is three and when he’s bad
    his mother dances with him.
    She puts on the record,
    “Red Roses for a Blue Lady”
    and throws him across the room.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
    The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)