Blue Mountain Lake

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

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The moon was waiting for her chill effect.
    I looked at nine: the swarm was turned to rock
    In every lifelike posture of the swarm,
    Transfixed on mountain slopes almost erect.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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