Famous quotes containing the words spring, lake and/or heights:
“Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.”
—Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)