Famous quotes containing the words leisure, village, lake and/or park:
“The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true.... The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (17281774)
“Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore
One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as
Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.
And that meant something.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,”
—Sara Teasdale (18841933)
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