Lake of The Woods County

Famous quotes containing the words lake of, lake, woods and/or county:

    “Turn back,
    back
    to the lake of Delos;
    lest all the song notes
    pause and break
    across a blood-stained throat....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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

    “A filmy trash
    Litters the black woods with the death
    Of men; and one last breath

    Curls from the monstrous chimney. . . .”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.”
    —Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)