Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“Do not because this day I have grown saturnine
Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought
Because I have no other youth, can make me pine;
For how should I forget the wisdom that you brought,
The comfort that you made?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“When the city gate catches fire, its the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“No more sand art, no sand book, no masters.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (19201970)