The Lost City of Sand

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

    Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.
    W.S. Merwin (b. 1928)

    Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
    Heaven and Earth out of their places,
    That in the same calamity
    Brother and brother, friend and friend,
    Family and family,
    City and city may contend.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see: in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain’t no flattery.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)