I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they a...re.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The only one who has ever been really mysterious." (Joan Crawford); "Her mystery was as thick as a London fog." (Tallulah Bankhea...d); "In a quick turn of her head, in a frank look, a boyish pout, in that proud glance from lowered lids, so pitying and yet so distant that in others it would be supercilious, in all those expressions of conscious beauty, which when imitated become clumsy, or arrogant, or ridiculous, there is a manifestation of what Hollywood cannot destroy. In the presence of this mystery all that is second-rate can be forgotten." (Cecil Beaton)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousne...ss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face,... When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The brown waves of fog toss up to me Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,... And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts An aimless smile that hovers in the air And vanishes along the level of the roofs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,... A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. O...ld ladies turned into moving--vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »