Famous quotes containing the words heart, lake and/or road:
“My heart got to thumping. You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What blazed ahead of you? A faked road block?
The red lamp swung, the sudden brakes and stalling
Engine, voices, heads hooded and the cold-nosed gun?”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
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