Ruin/cities

Famous quotes containing the words ruin and/or cities:

“A dog starved at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats ... these are the facts.”
—Alexander Trocchi (1925–1983)