Laurel Hill Boulevard

Famous quotes containing the words laurel, hill and/or boulevard:

    “Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “In the schoolyard,in the cloakrooms, the children boasted their
    scars of dried snot;wrists and knees garnished with impetigo.”
    —Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)

    “Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
    In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
    Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
    here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair,
    The pink paint on the innocence of fear;
    Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)