Village West Salem

Famous quotes containing the words village, west and/or salem:

“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“He is every other inch a gentleman.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)

“without luggage or defenses,
giving up my car keys and my cash,
keeping only a pack of Salem cigarettes
the way a child holds on to a toy.
I signed myself in where a stranger
puts the inked-in X’s”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)