I like it (Chicago) in spite of lake-wind sharpness and prairie flatness, damp tunnels, swinging bridges, hard water, and easy divorces… A lady from the East lately said of it, very charmingly, “It is New York with the heart left in.”
Places Quotes
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.
Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States.
Peru, it may be fairly said, is the only nation in the world which lived basically for a long time on bird manure.
Denmark is no vacation paradise. It is cold and rainy and dark except for June and July, when it’s extremely expensive.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.
Iowa, a really fecund state, throws its corn over into Nebraska and Illinois, and its old folks all the way to California.
Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers – all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than […]
Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth.
