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)

    “Give me the islands of the upper air,
    all mountains
    and the towering mountain trees.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)