Famous quotes containing the word stairway:
“The stairway is not
a thing of gleaming strands
a radiant evanescence
for angels feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
touch the stone.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A wifes long tongue is the stairway by which misfortunes ascend into the house.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)