Baku is a great hard worker, tarred by the harsh winds, wiping away salty sweat with his strong tanned hands.
He read the city like a book, like a story about invisible buildings engulfed in history.
Once I saw an old man in the mountains, he chose a cave, the whole world is dust to him. I said: “Why aren't you going to the city? You will find consolation for your soul there. " He said: "There the gurias are tender, like dreams, There is such dirt there that elephants will get bogged down."
A city occupied by an enemy is like a girl who has lost her innocence.
A wise man should not stop in a city that does not have five things: first, a just sovereign, a strict and domineering ruler; secondly, running waters and fat lands; thirdly, scientists with practical knowledge and endowed with moderation; fourth, skillful and compassionate healers; fifth, generous benefactors.
I saw the city, the city was great. People lived there, angry with their tongues. They always reviled each other, There the young man scolded and the old man. In that city, they shouted and screamed And lived wonderfully under the universal shout.
For any somewhat anxious person, a hometown ... is something very unnatural, a place of memories, sadness, pettiness, shame, temptation, a waste of energy.
A native of Serif told Themistocles that he owed his glory not to himself, but to his city. “Yours is true,” Themistocles answered, “just as I would not be famous if I were a native of Serif, so would you if I were an Athenian.”
You will never know how wonderful your hometown is until you leave there for a while.
The evil king, nationalism and stalls cannot be tolerated, the beauty and convenience of the city cannot be recognized. The cognitive dissonance.
We even managed to come to an agreement with the Petliurites, and with this new governor Almazov - no luck! - We have the first time when a stray climbed in Odessa. - Wait, Misha, what about Duke de Richelieu? He did make Odessa out of Odessa. - Oh, don't equate me with an intelligent Frenchman with a Siberian felt boot. What is valuable, Sema? - The Governor has a "Russia" in Odessa. Well, that's the name of a newspaper. - Oh, do not tell me my eyebrows. In Odessa, a newspaper has long been valuable only for a fish to wrap up.
There are too many residents in our city, too many visitors, too many cars. Everyone is in a hurry, everyone is late somewhere, there is a crush, a crush, queues everywhere, but still I love this city, this is my city, this is a very good city.
Nevsky Prospect, like any other avenue, is a public avenue; that is: a circular for the circulation of the public (not air, for example).
Is this your first time in the city? - I've seen almost all of Woody Allen's films, does that count? - No, there is no smell of garbage and broken hopes in them.
Mmm, Saratov. How I love Saratov. Such a wonderful city - Saratov.
How is the Silver City? “Still Silver, and still a city. - And how are our relatives there? Heard Uriel has grown his mustache. - Come on?! “I don’t know, I’m stuck here, but you should know. “I haven't been there for a couple of years, Lucie. - And where have you been? Certainly he didn’t wander among people. Wait, you've been flying back and forth all this time like some bum with feathers?
How long will it take? - Several blocks. “This place is so dull. - I like this. Tall buildings, diverse culture ... - ... and narrow-minded people who can easily be robbed. - There are such people in any city. “Oh, Emerald, Lady of Thieves! Please don't take my money! I already have almost a penny! " - ... - Nerd.
Most often, people leave a small city to dream of returning there. Others stay to dream of leaving.
Chuck Palahniuk. Rant: Biography of Buster Casey
The city at street level is not that attractive. But if you look up ...
500 days of Summer
It's time to destroy this city! Or at least repaint it in a different color.
sponge Bob Square Pants
A city becomes a world when you love one of the people living in it.
Lawrence Darrell. Justine
Love for this or that city is due to the feelings that one had to experience in it, and not by the city itself.
Marlene Dietrich
It turns out that there is such a pleasure - wandering through empty streets at random, not knowing the way. Alien, incomprehensible city. Alien, incomprehensible life.
But the real one. The most that neither is.
Boris Akunin. Death's Mistress
The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.
Erich Maria Remarque. Overnight in Lisbon
What a blessing that in the sleeping areas they live like in a remote province. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to get to the good one, but, having arrived, not to get there. However, that's just the misfortune, that's why you have to go somewhere.
"Elena Ermolova"
The larger the city, the stronger the loneliness. And this is the largest city.
Evgeny Grishkovets. Shirt
Nowhere, in any city in the world, do the stars shine as brightly as in the city of childhood.
Carnival Night
Now the whole world is on the edge, looking down at the hell of a hell. All these liberals, intellectuals, sweet-voiced talkers. And for some reason, suddenly no one knows what to say. Below me is this terrible city, it screams like a slaughterhouse full of mentally retarded children, and the night stinks of fornication and a bad conscience.
The keepers
Life in cities teaches you to look only at your feet. No one will remember that there is heaven in the world ...
Haruki Murakami. 1Q84
From those who have forgotten me, you can make a city.
Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky
... I generally like to leave, because without leaving one city it is rather difficult to come to another, and I like coming more than anything else.
Max Fry. Big cart
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth, it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, many people find sin.
John Green. The fault of the stars
It is enough to arrive at five in the morning in an unfamiliar city. It's all.
Max Fry. Big cart
In this city, everyone loves loneliness, and even if they don't, they are still lonely.
Janusz Leon Vishnevsky. Bikini
If you are looking for a person in a big city and have no idea where he might be, then instead of rushing around the city in search of him, it is better to sit somewhere in the center and sit there waiting until the one you are looking for, he will not come to you.
Yustein Gorder. Orange girl
The rivers have cooled down, and the earth has cooled down, And the houses have slightly ruffled. It is warm and damp in the city, It is warm and damp in the city, And outside the city - winter, winter, winter.
Leonid Derbenev
Still, hometown is a high concentration of impressions. Not something specific, but all at once. Strong, weak, joyful and sad - in such a powerful stream that you simply choke.
Elchin Safarli. You were promised to me
One of the easiest ways to love the city in which you live is from time to time to look at it through the eyes of a stranger (unless, of course, evil fate has thrown you into a very disgusting hole).
Max Fry. Quiet City
I love the forest. It is difficult to live in cities: there are too many lustful people.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Here it is, the advantage of tiny towns - without any effort on your part, everyone knows everything about you.
Paulo Coelho. Devil and Senorita Prim
The brighter the city, the darker its shadow ... This is obvious. And the darker the city gets, the darker the people become. I do not know what they are looking for, but they themselves cannot light their hearts.
Void's Edge: Garden of Sinners
In a big city you can see more, but in a small city you can hear more.
Jean Cocteau
There are a million such towns in the world. And in everyone it is just as dark, just as lonely, everyone is just as detached from everything, each has its own horrors and its secrets.
Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine
Surviving, winning in a big city, she becomes infected with the virus of indifference, without noticing it herself. It's hard to keep warm where it's easier to be cold ... and more comfortable.
Elchin Safarli. I'll be back
Any city ceases to be hostile as soon as you eat and drink in it. (The city seems to be a stranger to a person until he eats and drinks in it.)
Erich Maria Remarque. love thy neighbour
A walk in an unfamiliar city, if you haven't erased your feet, don't fall from fatigue, have at least a little money in your pocket, and have a few days left, is one of the most enjoyable activities in the world.
Sergey Lukyanenko. Clean copy
They say that the streets and houses keep the memory of the moments of happiness experienced by loving souls. Perhaps this is just a beautiful legend, but this morning I need to believe in it….
Mark Levy. First night
Nowhere and never, in any city in the world, believe me, it's true, the stars do not shine as brightly and captivatingly as in the city of childhood.
All my generation are loners, we are deaf to each other, like a bird diving; busy with their own business, we hear nothing around; hiding in quiet marriages, we dream of that one, awarded to a lonely plate and dinner in silence; we saw cities, not people in them.
Milorad Pavic. A landscape painted with tea
If the essence of life is information transmitted by genes, then society and culture are nothing more than an additional giant system for the accumulation and storage of information. That is, a city is a giant external storage device.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Tired of reading "Oblomov"
And wait for good weather from women,
Tired of being soft, gentle, unnecessary
Tired of living in the city
Where the authorities are afraid of the snow
And the traffic cops say hello
With expensive cars.
Tired of being an adult
Who knows everything
But nothing can.
Alik Yakubovich. Flying fish
Theodore Dreiser. Sister Kerry
There is a city in the world without which the world will be better ...
Dogville
You can take cities and win battles, but you cannot conquer an entire nation.
George Bernard Shaw
I looked at my watch - it was five o'clock in the morning, but neither she nor I even felt sleepy, because in the air of this city there was a neurosis, which the local residents take for energy.
Evelyn Waugh. Return to Brideshead
Wait and hope is a surefire way to suddenly go crazy, but rushing around the city and doing stupid things is exactly what you need!
Cities are surrendered by soldiers, generals are taking them.
Alexander Tvardovsky
You can build your future out of anything. From some crumb or spark. From the desire to move forward, slowly, one step after another. You can build a spacious city on the ruins.
Lauren Oliver
The problem with small towns is that everyone thinks they know who you are.
The killer inside me
I am, perhaps, more attracted by the complete freedom of life in a wild country than the beauty of nature. There, a person can really preserve his human dignity, not like in our cities.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
After the break, certain streets, places, even times become prohibited! The city turns into a desolate battlefield filled with mines of memories. You must carefully look where you are stepping, otherwise you will be torn to pieces….
I have always believed that those things that you do not choose make you who you are: your city, your district, your family.
Moscow is a city where money can be made out of thin air.
Love is not a mirror pond into which you can gaze forever. She has ebb and flow. And the wreckage of ships that were wrecked, and sunken cities, and octopuses, and storms, and boxes of gold, and pearls ... But the pearls - those lie very deep.
My life does not belong to me. I live in a city I don’t want to be in. I live a life I don’t want to live.
The one who decided to conquer the capital must be stronger than her. This city does not forgive weakness and does not believe in tears ...
Old age is not the surest sign of maturity, but the ability not to get lost, waking up on a busy street in the city center in underwear.
They ended up synchronously, in different parts of the city, each on its own shelf of a rack of human high-rise buildings ....
Warm days have returned to the city. They returned with redoubled affection, as unfaithful wives return. All day frivolous, restless clouds roamed across the sky, and dry, lean leaves like autumn lay thickly on the ground in silence, without a rustle. For several days the city seemed to be in a warm and kind of blissful swoon, it indulged in autumn, this changeable liar, and did not believe, did not want to believe in the imminent onset of cold weather ...
Dina Rubina
Wait and hope is a surefire way to suddenly go crazy, but rushing around the city and doing stupid things is exactly what you need!
The hometown is not the one in which you started your life, but the one in which you want to end it.
I'm not sure I really exist. I am all the writers I've read, all the people I've met, all the women I've loved and all the cities I've been to.
I'm not just going crazy, but I'm tired over the summer. You climb into the dresser for a shirt, and the day is lost. Hurry, perhaps, winter came and brought in all this - cities, people, but for starters greenery.
Joseph Brodsky
Autumn depressively covers the city with leaves, Eating paint with a wet mood.
The Germans can destroy the city, destroy its treasures, leave us without warmth and light, but they cannot destroy the faith in the souls of people!
Alexander Chakovsky
I will go where you are. I don't need anything else. I don't need the student council anymore. I don't need good grades anymore. I don't need smart comrades anymore. I don't want to meet spring in another city. I want to meet her with you. This is enough for me.
Some tourists think that Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in reality it is a city of freedom. It's just that in conditions of freedom, the majority chooses sin.
While my crazy city swallows funny dreams, And spreads maple hearts on the noisy streets, Lord, please, fasten my soul with all the buttons, So that I do not wither away at all until spring
The city lies in darkness ... It's about winter again ...
... the town turned out to be photogenic, albeit an ass of the world.
Max Fry. Big cart
There is nothing better than spending the summer in the forest, giving your head a rest before studying and returning home to the city, to the noise, cold, dirty air, where there are too many people in too limited space.
Simon Hawke
Every city has its own smell. And the smell of each thing betrays its provincial homeland.
Elsa Triolet
The city melts in a flock in the darkness, Autumn, what did I know about you? How much foliage will tear, Autumn is always right.
The sun was shining and people were moving vigorously. It was an asphalt spring, it was one of those seasonless spring autumn days that cities conjure.
Robert Musil.
The pursuit of history is always present in Barcelona. For me, cities are organisms, living beings. For me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And this is a very smug woman.
Of course, if you want to look at the two most important things - how a person lives and how nature lives - you have to come here, to the ravine. After all, the city, in the end, is just a big ship battered by storms, it is full of people, and everyone is busy tirelessly - scooping up water, chipping off rust.
Ray Bradbury
We justify everything that we ourselves do by necessity. When we bomb cities it is a strategic necessity, and when our cities are bombed it is a heinous crime.
Erich Maria Remarque "A Time to Live and a Time to Die"
Sometimes it seems to me that we are the worst family in the city. - Maybe we should move to a larger city?
If you fall because of your mother, she will help you to get to your feet. If you fall in the city, no one will help you up.
A big city where your dreams come true for someone else.
Elchin Safarli
Well, where, where, in Leningrad! - In which Leningrad? There is no such city for a long time! - There is no city, but the 3rd street of Builders remained ...
They say that people in a big city are more tolerant than in the provinces. No, this is simple indifference.
The big city is an unfortunate helpless monster. Everything that it consumes must be delivered to it.
It is not the seclusion of the place that is important, but the independence. Poets who lived in cities were still hermits.
R. Emerson
Whole cities can be built on naked love. The easiest way to find her is to leave the house and go nowhere.
Country mansions of the rich, as a rule, neither to the countryside nor to the city.
Why does no one whom I ask about my beloved city name the city in which he was born and lives?
“I don’t know, dear ... Perhaps we were all scattered around the world and mixed in it so that everyone would look for their own place. Heart.
Elchin Safarli. If you could know…
Protect the city, fight in the wasteland, knowing both grief and happiness; Then the spirit-bearing powder will grow, filling the tripod, blushing.
Zhang Bo-duan "Chapters on the Insight of Truth"
From the city and until spring, having packed a suitcase, joy left for the south.
You said that the city is strength, but here everyone is weak ...
- The city is an evil force ... The strong come, become weak, the city takes power ... So you are gone!
Well, great, ”Benjamin said, catching his breath, optimistically. - The farther from the city, the quieter and cleaner the air. - And the beast is not frightened! - Polina picked up joyfully.
Olga Gromyko
Happiness is when you have a large, friendly, caring, loving family in another city.
George Burns
Who can tell where the city ends and the wilderness begins? Who can say if the city is growing into it or is it moving into the city?
Ray Bradbury
Traveling so much, she discovered one amazing thing: none of the lights of the city at night can compare with the beauty of the lights that illuminate her native land. And even the stars in the sky shine brighter where your home is.
Lights of the city at night, it is as if someone launched hundreds of fireworks at the same time.
Okay, I understand, every city needs its own idiot ...
I began to vaguely understand how much tempting a big city is fraught with: wealth, grace, comfort - everything that can beautify a woman.
Theodore Dreiser
The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.
I will drown the whole city in blood, if only you were whole.
In France. Underground.
- Escalators are not long, apparently and the depth is not very big, it's not like in my hometown - St. Petersburg, back and forth, and half a day has already passed.
... at night the city is an overturned sky.
Most often, people leave a small city to dream of returning there. Others stay to dream of leaving there. Chuck Palahniuk
The one who decided to conquer the capital must be stronger than her. This city does not forgive weakness and does not believe in tears ...
I have always believed that those things that you do not choose make you who you are: your city, your district, your family.
Love is not a mirror pond into which you can gaze forever. She has ebb and flow. And the wreckage of wrecked ships, and sunken cities, and octopuses, and storms, and boxes of gold, and pearls ... But the pearls - those lie very deep.
The hometown is not the one in which you started your life, but the one in which you want to end it.
After the break, certain streets, places, even times become prohibited! The city turns into a desolate battlefield filled with mines of memories. You must carefully watch where you step, otherwise you will be torn to pieces ...
Wait and hope is a surefire way to suddenly go crazy, but rushing around the city and doing stupid things is exactly what you need!
My life does not belong to me. I live in a city I don’t want to be in. I live a life I don’t want to live.
Cities are surrendered by soldiers, generals are taking them. Alexander Tvardovsky
My father left me when I was six years old, but I still don't remember him. My father has a habit of starting a new family in a new city every seven years. He obviously thinks that the family is something like a chain of branded restaurants. Chuck Palahniuk
Warm days have returned to the city. They returned with redoubled affection, as unfaithful wives return. All day frivolous, restless clouds roamed across the sky, and dry, lean leaves like autumn lay thickly on the ground in silence, without a rustle. For several days the city seemed to be in a warm and kind of blissful swoon, it indulged in autumn, this changeable liar, and did not believe, did not want to believe in the imminent onset of cold weather ... Dina Rubina
Winter kills life on earth, but spring comes, and all living things will be born again. But it was hard to believe, looking at the ashes of the recently living city, that someday spring would come for it too.
You can build your future out of anything. From some crumb or spark. From the desire to move forward, slowly, one step after another. You can build a spacious city on the ruins. Lauren Oliver
There are people in the world whom you just love. Just. Not for something. You feel good at the thought that they exist. They may be very far away, in other cities, even in other countries, but you know that they love you too. Just.
There was a carousel in my life, there was a room of laughter, and now, finally, I met a person with whom I could stop and not run anywhere else. Don't you want to stay with me? T \ s S * ks in the big city
I'm not sure I really exist. I am all the writers I've read, all the people I've met, all the women I've loved and all the cities I've been to.
While my crazy city swallows funny dreams, And spreads maple hearts on the noisy streets, Lord, please, fasten my soul with all the buttons, So that I do not wither away at all until spring
The city lies in darkness ... It's winter again ...
Autumn depressively covers the city with leaves, Eating paint with a wet mood.
I will go where you are. I don't need anything else. I don't need the student council anymore. I don't need good grades anymore. I don't need smart comrades anymore. I don't want to meet spring in another city. I want to meet her with you. This is enough for me.
If there was no winter If there was no winter In cities and villages, We would never have known These happy days. The little one would not be circling Near the snow woman, The ski track would not loop, If only, if only ...
It is not the seclusion of the place that is important, but the independence. Poets who lived in cities were still hermits. R. Emerson
Happiness is when you have a large, friendly, caring, loving family in another city. George Burns
The sun was shining and people were moving vigorously. It was an asphalt spring, it was one of those seasonless spring autumn days that cities conjure. Robert Musil.
I'm not just going crazy, but I'm tired over the summer. You climb into the dresser for a shirt, and the day is lost. Hurry, perhaps, winter came and brought in all this - cities, people, but for starters greenery. Joseph Brodsky
The city melts in a flock in the darkness, Autumn, what did I know about you? How much foliage will tear, Autumn is always right.
A big city where your dreams come true for someone else. Elchin Safarli
Lights of the city at night, it is as if someone launched hundreds of fireworks at the same time.
It's one thing to fly a B-29 flying to Hiroshima, and quite another to look at it from the central square of the city. Victor Pelevin "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf"
Okay, I understand, every city needs its own idiot ...
The Germans can destroy the city, destroy its treasures, leave us without warmth and light, but they cannot destroy the faith in the souls of people! Alexander Chakovsky
Traveling so much, she discovered one amazing thing: none of the lights of the city at night can compare with the beauty of the lights that illuminate her native land. And even the stars in the sky shine brighter where your home is.
Who can tell where the city ends and the wilderness begins? Who can say if the city is growing into it or is it moving into the city?
Ray Bradbury
If you fall because of your mother, she will help you to get to your feet. If you fall in the city, no one will help you up.
They say that people in a big city are more tolerant than in the provinces. No, this is simple indifference.
We will be showered with snowflakes New winter in this city. I cover my eyes with my palms. Your eyes with your palms.
She was well versed in old money. A certain aura of holiness hovered over them - probably because people had not parted with them for years. And she was versed in the new money made by upstarts, which in recent years in the city divorced apparently invisibly. But in Madame Zarinski's powdered chest the heart of a real Ankh-Morpork shopkeeper was beating, who knows for sure: the best money is the money that you hold in your hands, and not someone else. The best money is my money, not yours. In addition, she was quite snobbish, and therefore always confused rudeness and good upbringing. Rich people are never crazy (they are eccentric), nor are they rude (they are honest and spontaneous). Terry Pratchett "Masquerade"
We justify everything that we ourselves do by necessity. When we bomb cities it is a strategic necessity, and when our cities are bombed it is a heinous crime. Erich Maria Remarque "A Time to Live and a Time to Die"
Autumn ... She appeared in the city suddenly, although according to the calendar it's time. The sweltering weeks ended abruptly, as if they had been banished. In the evening it started to rain, and in the morning the sun was already dull. During these hot almost three months of summer, we have completely lost the habit of contrasts. We have forgotten that we live in a city-mood. Today outside the window smells of autumn coolness. I love this season. The time when you do not need to prove anything, to get used to something. Everything is as it is. A time of silent reconciliation with different colors of life. Elchin Safarli
Of course, if you want to look at the two most important things - how a person lives and how nature lives - you have to come here, to the ravine. After all, the city, in the end, is just a big ship battered by storms, it is full of people, and everyone is busy tirelessly - scooping up water, chipping off rust. Ray Bradbury
Sometimes it seems to me that we are the worst family in the city.
- Maybe we should move to a larger city?
It got dark, the city lights the first lights. God! How he is overwhelmed by nature, despite all his geometric lines, how the evening presses on him. Hence it is so ... so striking. Am I the only one who can see it? Is there really no other Cassandra, who stands like this on the hill and sees at her feet the city, swallowed up by the womb of nature. But what difference does it make to me? What can I tell her? Jean-Paul Sartre
The big city is an unfortunate helpless monster. Everything that it consumes must be delivered to it.
I am, perhaps, more attracted by the complete freedom of life in a wild country than the beauty of nature. There, a person can really preserve his human dignity, not like in our cities. Ethel Lilian Voynich
This city, to which I so rarely return, contrived again and stuck an awl in my heart - through everything I managed to reconcile with in life, through my jacket, sweater and chest. Martha Ketro
This music was written as if to help go forward, stubbornly and almost vindictively climb the mountain. She calls forward, forward and forward, not allowing to stop. And then there comes a lull, like in a Vienna woods, as if a person's throat suddenly caught in the throat from the sight of the city where he aspires, and then he throws his arms out to the sides and begins to dance in a circle ... This is merciless music. The walking man is not going to stop. Forward, upward, further ... Now it does not matter any more: forests, trees - all this does not matter. Only one thing matters: you continue to walk ... And when a drop of happiness comes again - fragrant, exultant happiness caused by walking along the plateau - then this time steps sound to the beat. That is why the path does not end. Until the music stops playing. Anne Rice
There is nothing better than spending the summer in the forest, giving your head a rest before studying and returning home to the city, to the noise, cold, dirty air, where there are too many people in too limited space. Simon Hawke
Moscow is a city where money can be made out of thin air.
The city took off the winter. The snows salivated. Spring has come again, as stupid and talkative as a cadet.
Old age is not the surest sign of maturity, but the ability not to get lost, waking up on a busy street in the city center in underwear.
They ended up synchronously, in different parts of the city, each on its own shelf of a rack of human high-rise buildings ....
You can take cities and win battles, but you cannot conquer an entire nation. George Bernard Shaw
The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.
I would have snow in your city, just to be with you ... Elchin Safarli
Whole cities can be built on naked love. The easiest way to find her is to leave the house and go nowhere.
Country mansions of the rich, as a rule, neither to the countryside nor to the city.
The rivers have cooled down, and the earth has cooled down, And the houses have slightly ruffled. It is warm and damp in the city, It is warm and damp in the city, And outside the city - winter, winter, winter. Leonid Derbenev
A city becomes a world when you love one of the people living in it.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns
From the city and until spring, having packed a suitcase, joy left for the south.
Protect the city, fight in the wasteland, knowing both grief and happiness; Then the spirit-bearing powder will grow, filling the tripod, blushing. Zhang Bo-duan "Chapters on the Insight of Truth"
I love you alone, and you will have to come to terms with it, even if you are not going to change anything in your life. In your city there is a person who loves you and suffers, whether you want it or not.
I began to vaguely understand how much tempting a big city is fraught with: wealth, grace, comfort - everything that can beautify a woman. Theodore Dreiser
Well, great, ”Benjamin said, catching his breath, optimistically.
- The farther from the city, the quieter and cleaner the air.
- And the beast is not frightened!
- Polina picked up joyfully. Olga Gromyko
Well, where, where, in Leningrad!
- In which Leningrad? There is no such city for a long time!
- There is no city, but the 3rd street of Builders remained ...
This is my first time in Los Angeles and all that I have seen here so far is huge traffic jams and evil robots. - Well, basically, this is all that can be seen in Los Angeles.
Here it is, the advantage of tiny towns - without any effort on your part, everyone knows everything about you.
"Paulo Coelho"
With their location on the outskirts, their gloomy silence, airports are akin, in my opinion, only to the post stations of the stagecoach era. Our red-brick stations were then built right in cities and towns, and only residents of those provinces got off the trains there. Airports are like ancient oases, parking lots on the great caravan routes.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The town turned out to be photogenic, albeit an ass of the world.
"Max Fry"
And the shepherd, and the sailor, and the itinerant merchants always have one cherished city, where she lives, for the sake of which they are ready to sacrifice the joyful opportunity to freely roam the world.
"Paulo Coelho"
I looked at my watch - it was five o'clock in the morning, but neither she nor I even felt sleepy, because in the air of this city there was a neurosis, which the local residents take for energy.
"Evelyn Waugh"
A big city where your dreams come true for someone else.
"Elchin Safarli"
Who can tell where the city ends and the wilderness begins? Who can say if the city is growing into it or is it moving into the city?
"Ray Bradbury"
Here, every locality, every city is different. Rome is one thing, Naples is completely different. I'm not even talking about Venice, Florence or, say, the islands.
Life in cities teaches you to look only at your feet. The fact that there is heaven in the world, no one will remember.
"Haruki Murakami"
Humans have created their own jungle.
"Henry Lyon Oldie"
Night city. The light of the streets is blurred in a light fog - this is how a nearsighted or crying person sees the lanterns. Or a poor man with no prospects.
"Elchin Safarli"
What a home is for a peasant, the city becomes for a cultured person.
"Oswald Spengler"
Make cities so that you can be proud of them, so that you can work, think and relax in them, and not get sick with neurasthenia and tram rage. It is necessary that the city does not oppress the consciousness, so that we do not put up with it as a necessity, so that we do not hate it as something that shortens life, but come to it as to our home full of friends, books and work.
"Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky"
In this city, the primordially ancient and the outrageously new are crowding each other - not brazenly, but without any reverence.
Neil Gaiman
The city dreams of falling into silence, and it kills us one by one.
On the outskirts, in the capital, a hundred people are hanging around: the door to the capital is being nailed down.
"Vladimir Borisov"
Old age is not the surest sign of maturity, but the ability not to get lost, waking up on a busy street in the city center in underwear.
Paris is an inhabited desert; a provincial city - a desert without loneliness.
"Francois Mauriac"
I was born here, I grew up here. However, my long absence for this city went completely unnoticed. I knew it right away. This is the pulse of the metropolis.
"Kaori Ekuni"
There is something naively theatrical, captivating and magical in the light of the sun in Lisbon. But at night it turns into a vague fairy tale about a city that, with all its terraces and lights, descends to the sea, like a festively dressed woman bowing to her lover, drowned in darkness.
"Erich Maria Remarque"
Looking at Ankh Morpork at this time of year, it is hard not to refrain from exclaiming that the city appears in all its unique splendor. It would sound ambiguous, though. Rather, he appeared in all his magnificent uniqueness.
Terry Pratchett
A small town is a place where you can't go where you shouldn't be.
Alexander Walcott
The big city is an unfortunate helpless monster. Everything that it consumes must be delivered to it.
"Henry Ford"
Inside every city there is always another city.
"Gilles Deleuze"
It was a barefoot Markven town, where childhood, having played, does not fear punishment, and old age approaches carelessly.
"Ray Bradbury"
Traveling so much, she discovered one amazing thing: none of the lights of the city at night can compare with the beauty of the lights that illuminate her native land. And even the stars in the sky shine brighter where your home is.
Moscow collects extremes. The smartest, the most sincere, the richest give away the surplus, and it turns out that happiness and unhappiness to the maximum turn into a mass prosperous middle.
"Elena Ermolova"
I remember once I stood in front of the door of my store, looked out into the street and thought: would I like to die in this city? The simplest test. And he answered himself: no, no way. Then is it worth living here?
"Andrey Dashkov"
Cities should be built in the countryside, where the air is much better.
"Murye Henri"
The most convenient way to get to know the city is to try to find out how people work here, how people love here and how people die here.
Albert Camus
The street is not just for the movement of people, it is the place where they stay.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Snow tends to hide all the dirt of the city, and even the most dull neighborhoods, covered with snow, acquire a semblance of beauty.
"Mark Levy"
Yet hometown is a high concentration of impressions. Not something definite, but all at once. Strong, weak, joyful and sad - in such a powerful stream that you simply choke.
"Elchin Safarli"
In this city, everyone loves loneliness, and even if they don't, they are still lonely.
Write poems about the city can only be a person who is sincerely attached to his small homeland, who knows this area inside and out. Only in this case he is able to convey all that uniqueness created by the same people. We know a lot of poems about the city that is the capital of Russia - about Moscow, about the city that has rightfully earned the status of the cultural capital - about St. Petersburg. (Although someone, perhaps, only at the word "Leningrad" feels warmth, he is seized by memories of joys and sorrows.) But poems about cities whose names we learn only from such works are no less interesting to us. All this literary creation has one thing in common: wherever a person lives, he considers the city where his childhood, youth, maturity passed, the best on earth.
Urban lyrics can be filled with luxurious epithets, graceful metaphors. This is the desire to exalt, praise your beloved city. However, the closest to the reader were and remain simple words of a person walking aimlessly down the street and noticing small but very important details... Of these, in fact, the very "real city life" consists. Principle "What I see, I sing" in poems about the city especially welcome. Everything is visible here without embellishment, and we ourselves can make the right picture in our imagination.
Reading out urban poetry, we can discover new unknown sides of different places around the world. Or maybe someone such works will be able to inspire thoughts about travel? One way or another, we see the city through the prism of the author's perception. And this is doubly interesting.
