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)

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

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