Stairway

Famous quotes containing the word stairway:

    The stairway is not
    a thing of gleaming strands
    a radiant evanescence
    for angels’ feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
    touch the stone.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    A wife’s long tongue is the stairway by which misfortunes ascend into the house.
    Chinese proverb.

    But mount to paradise
    By the stairway of surprise.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)