Cities At Night Quotes

• And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

  Pablo Neruda

  Long Distance Relationship, Night, Cities

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cities, People

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• Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

  Rupert Brooke

  Cat, Night, Cities

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Cities, Atmosphere

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Cities, Born

  1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.

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• What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

  Nik Wallenda

  Beautiful, Night, Cities

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Artist, Cities

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• We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Business, Real, Cities

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Cities, Able, Life Is

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• 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.

  John Dos Passos

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• I love driving in the city at night.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Night, Cities, Driving

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• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Home, Night

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.30

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Morning, Lying

  'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (1807)

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• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Cities

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• 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.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Shapes, Ends

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• If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Travel, Istanbul, Cities

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• 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.

  Drake

  Night, Light, Atlanta

  Source: www.complex.com

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• 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.

  Walter Benjamin

  Ignorance, Feet, Cities

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.598, Harvard University Press

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• Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.371

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• 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

  Fashion, Ebb And Flow, Cities

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.95, tredition

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• Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House

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• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Creativity, Cities

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

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

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Cities, Paris

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• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Cities, Looks

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Cities, Swamps

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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