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  • The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

    Humorous   Cities   Paris  
  • Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS
  • Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

    New York   Night   Cities  
    Rick Kennedy (1998). “Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer”, p.10, Stone Bridge Press
  • Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
  • Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

    Death   Home   Night  
    Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.30
  • Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

    Ocean   Cities   Swamps  
    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press
  • I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all.

    Night   Thinking   Cities  
    John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press
  • The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

    Art   Creativity   Cities  
    "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.
  • I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

    Love   Artist   Cities  
  • This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

    Beauty   Morning   Lying  
    'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (1807)
  • The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS
  • All great art is born of the metropolis.

    Art   Cities   Born  
    1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.
  • And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

    Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.119, New Directions Publishing
  • The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

    Cities   Shapes   Ends  
  • And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

  • I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

    Night   Light   Atlanta  
    Source: www.complex.com
  • Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

    "Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts".
  • The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS
  • To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

    Artist   Cities   Looks  
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  • A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

    Cities   Able   Life Is  
    Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”
  • Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

    Air   Cities   Names  
    "Worpswede". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903.
  • The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

    Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso
  • Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.95, tredition
  • All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

    Rome   Cities   Shameless  
  • Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

    Country   Cities   People  
  • We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

    Cities   Neglect   Peril  
    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.78, Best Books on
  • Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  • Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

    Ignorance   Feet   Cities  
    Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.598, Harvard University Press
  • We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

    Business   Real   Cities  
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