Cloud City

Famous quotes containing the words cloud and/or city:

“If you wish --
... I’ll be irreproachably tender;
not a man, but—a cloud in trousers!”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)

“I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly,
musical, self-sufficient,
I see that the word of my city is that word from of old,
Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships, an
island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)