Classic American Love

Famous quotes containing the words classic, american and/or love:

    “On desperate seas long wont to roam,
    The hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
    Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
    To the glory that was Greece,
    And the grandeur that was Rome.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring.”
    —Frances Trollope (1780–1863)

    “Oxford is—Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)