Defeated Eastern Suburbs

Famous quotes containing the words defeated, eastern and/or suburbs:

    “Lest darkness fall and time fall
    In a long night when learned arteries
    Mounting the ice and sum of barbarous time
    Shall yield, without essence, perfect accident.
    We are the eyelids of defeated caves.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
    Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)