Atlantic City Convention

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic city, atlantic, city and/or convention:

    “vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous
    picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “The shallowest still water is unfathomable. Wherever the trees and skies are reflected, there is more than Atlantic depth, and no danger of fancy running aground.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Hell is a city much like London—
    A populous and a smoky city;
    There are all sorts of people undone,
    And there is little or no fun done;
    Small justice shown, and still less pity.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)