Crabbe/places

Famous quotes containing the words crabbe and/or places:

    Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,
    Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
    —George Crabbe (1754–1832)

    Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
    Italo Calvino (1923–1985)