Winding Stair Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words winding, stair and/or mountain:

    “The harlot’s cry from street to street
    Shall weave old England’s winding sheet.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “The catastrophe
    Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
    And never corrupted anybody.
    And one day he grew up, and the horizon
    Stammered politely. The sky was like muslin.
    And still in the old house no one ever answered the bell.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. Great havoc makes among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)