Joined City Country

Famous quotes containing the words joined, city and/or country:

    “Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Wedding,” (1662)

    “This was once
    a city among men, a gathering together of spirit.
    It was measured by the Lord and found wanting.”
    —Robert Duncan (b. 1919)

    “And we may be led, then, upward through more
    Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
    With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
    Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
    Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)