Distant City

Famous quotes containing the words distant and/or city:

“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“Notice how he has numbered the blue veins
in my breast. Moreover there are ten freckles.
Now he goes left. Now he goes right.
He is building a city, a city of flesh.
He’s an industrialist.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)