Lake Desolation

Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or desolation:

“This is my lake country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“man’s life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)