Famous quotes containing the words classic american, classic, american and/or love:
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“For love so hates mortality
Which is the providence of life
She will not let it blessèd be
But curses it with mortal strife....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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