The Lost City of Sand

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

    “I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
    With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
    Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
    I shall but love thee better after death.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”
    —Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)

    “The desert encroaches on the garden. No matter. Sand will do as well as flowers.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)