North East Europe

Famous quotes containing the words north, east and/or europe:

“The Moon’s the North Wind’s cooky,”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

“A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)