The Lost City of Sand

Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:

    “We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “From Washington, proverbially “the city of distances,” through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “But the twelve lie in the sand by the dry rock
    Seeing nothing—the sand, the tree, rocks
    Without number—and turn away the face
    To the mind’s briefer and more desert place.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)