Lake Clifton

Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or clifton:

    Will lovely, lively, virginal today
    Shatter for us with a wing’s drunken blow
    This hard, forgotten lake haunted in snow
    By the sheer ice of flocks not flown away!
    Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

    Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
    —Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)