Roaring Brook Lake

Famous quotes containing the words roaring, brook and/or lake:

    “The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
    and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
    He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
    in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “deep in the manhood his childhood
    so swiftly led to, a small brook rock-leaping
    into the rapt, imperious, seagoing river.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923, Anglo–U.S. poet. “The Son.”

    “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)