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)

    “... his voice and hands,
    Within whose warm spring rain of loving care
    Each dwells some twenty seconds. Now, dear child,
    What’s wrong, the deep American voice demands,
    And, scarcely pausing, goes into a prayer
    Directing God about this eye, that knee.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
    To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
    —Eliza Cook (1818–1889)