A great city, a great solitude.
Cities - City Quotes
The city’s heat is like a leaden pall – Its lowered lamps glow in the midnight air Like mammoth orange-moths that flit and flare Through the dark tapestry of night. The tall Black houses crush the creeping beggars down.
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears.
The city man, in his neon and mazda glare, knows nothing of nature’s midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.
I loathe the squares and streets, And the faces that one meets.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
City Life. Millions of people being lonesome together.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
