The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it wa...s like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea... The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These beginnings of commerce on a lake in the wilderness are very interesting,--these larger white birds that come to keep company... with the gulls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,... I hear it in the deep heart's core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as... Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed. And that meant something.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshness... of a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have bathed, where none have seen us, In the lake and in the fountain,... Underneath the charmed statue Of the timid, bending Venus,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »