Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or calm:
“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There was calm rapture in the way she spoke
Perhaps I would get over the way the joke
Always turned against me, in the end.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)