Beacon House

Famous quotes containing the words beacon and/or house:

    “I am cozily ensconced in the balcony of my face
    Looking out over the whole darn countryside, a beacon of satisfaction
    I am. I’ll not trade places with a king. Here I am then, continuing but ever beginning
    My perennial voyage....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)