Alleys

Famous quotes containing the word alleys:

    “To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs,
    O caliper, do you scratch your buttocks
    And tell the divine ingénue, your companion,
    That this bloom is the bloom of soap
    And this fragrance the fragrance of vegetal?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The Graces, and the rosie-boosom’d Howres,
    Thither all their bounties bring,
    That there eternal Summer dwels,
    And West winds, with musky wing
    About the cedar’n alleys fling
    Nard, and Cassia’s balmy smels.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)