Blue Mountain Lake

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

    “Down the blue night the unending columns press
    In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “There, on the mountain and the sky,
    On all the tragic scene they stare.
    One asks for mournful melodies;
    Accomplished fingers begin to play.
    Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
    Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)