Penn Central

Famous quotes containing the words penn and/or central:

    “Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (b. 1905)

    “Et in Arcadia ego.
    [I too am in Arcadia.]”
    —Anonymous, Anonymous.

    Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)