York Lying North

Famous quotes containing the words york, lying and/or north:

    The energy, the brutality, the scale, the contrast, the tension, the rapid change—and the permanent congestion—are what the New Yorker misses when he leaves the city.
    —In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down.
    Come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It is the sea that whitens the roof.
    The sea drifts through the winter air.
    It is the sea that the north wind makes.
    The sea is in the falling snow.
    This gloom is the darkness of the sea.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)