City Sea Gulls

Famous quotes containing the words city, sea and/or gulls:

    “New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”
    —Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)

    “Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs.
    Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows,
    Tower suddenly, spray-haired.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “blind wantons like the gulls who scream
    And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)