Famous quotes containing the words upper, red and/or lake:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“His breast was deep and white,
cold and caressable;
his eyes were red glass,
much to be desired.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
“Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)