The York Spit Light was a lighthouse located at the mouth of the York River in the Chesapeake Bay, marking a long shoal paralleling the main channel into the river.
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“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)
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In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances.
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For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog,
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And all for use of that which is mine own.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall; so light is vanity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)