Famous quotes containing the words lady, lake, poem and/or narrative:
“In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“This is my lake country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.”
—Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)