Mexico City Proper

Famous quotes containing the words mexico, city and/or proper:

    “I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “half-way up the hill, I see the Past
    Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,—
    A city in the twilight dim and vast,
    With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights,—
    And hear above me on the autumnal blast
    The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    ““The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)