State Prison

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or prison:

    “If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the “state of progressive collapse” is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “each prison crypt,
    of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
    Surviving in a world of stocks,—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)