Blue Mountain Lake

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

    “The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
    Between the two we live and die
    The broken cartwheel on the hill.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

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