Cloud City

Famous quotes containing the words cloud and/or city:

    “Not for no cold did freeze,
    Nor any cloud beguile
    Th’eternal flowering spring,”
    —Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)

    “A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious, a miser’s glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)