Deep Lake Water

Famous quotes containing the words deep, lake and/or water:

    To me the meanest flower that blows can give
    Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    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)

    Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. “What!” he said, “Must we void ourselves as we run?” Use our time as best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)