Street Stair Leads

Famous quotes containing the words street, stair and/or leads:

    “Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to
    And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The catastrophe
    Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
    And never corrupted anybody.
    And one day he grew up, and the horizon
    Stammered politely. The sky was like muslin.
    And still in the old house no one ever answered the bell.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare,
    The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square;
    Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there!”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)