cities and city life quotes

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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and p ...
The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its s ...
Everything that was ever to happen to me in the future had its germ or impulse in the conditions of my life on Dover Street. My fr ...
That sweet city with her dreaming spires.
For spring had entered the capital
Walking on gigantic feet.
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For later in the vast gloom of cities, only there you learn
How the ideas were good only because they had to die,
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It is the sorrow; shall it melt? Ah, water
Would gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys
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We honor founders of these starving cities,
Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Riding out
from this town, to another, where
it is also black.
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