To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
Places Quotes
Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice. (1826)
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the ruins of her ice water mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, The island and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her And the iron boats go as the mariners all know With the gales of […]
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.
From Hamlet to Kierkegaard, the word “Danish” has been synonymous with fun, fun, fun… Who else would have the sense of humor to stuff prunes and toecheese into lumps of wet dough and serve it to you for breakfast?… Let’s hear it for those those very wonderful kooky, very crazy, very whacky, very witty Danes! […]
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Nelson Algren says living there (Chicago) is like being married to a woman with a broken nose: there may be lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me.
Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old fashioned country-seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplars their shadows throw; And from its ancient station in the hall An ancient timepiece says to all, – Forever – never! Never – forever!
Prague seemed – it still seems, after many rival cities – not only one of the most beautiful places in the world, but one of the strangest. Fear, piety, zeal, strife and pride, tempered in the end by the milder impulses of munificence and learning and “doucer de vivre”, had flung up an unusual array […]
