Famous quotes containing the words local, air and/or quality:
“His farm was grounds, and not a farm at all;
His house among the local sheds and shanties
Rose like a factors at a trading station.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlwind.”
—Dante Alighieri (12651321)
“What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his artwhat but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholsteredin a word, the luxurious quality of his music?”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)