City Pillar Shrine

Famous quotes containing the words city, pillar and/or shrine:

    “O City city, I can sometimes hear
    Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,
    The pleasant whining of a mandolin
    And a clatter and a chatter from within
    Where fishmen lounge at noon.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Nights, I squat in the cornucopia
    Of your left ear, out of the wind,

    Counting the red stars and those of plum-color.
    The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.”
    —Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)