Medieval City

Famous quotes containing the words medieval and/or city:

“The medieval town, with frieze
Of boy scouts from Nagoya?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious, a miser’s glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)