Urban Oasis Effect

Famous quotes containing the words urban, oasis and/or effect:

“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there.... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Are you not the oasis where I dream, and the gourd from which I drink in long draughts the wine of memory?”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“The pleasure of one’s effect on other people still exists in age—what’s called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.”
—Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)