Imagined Village

Famous quotes containing the words imagined and/or village:

“Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)