Famous quotes containing the words lost, lake and/or woods:
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)
“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)