Quotes on Cities At Night

All great art is born of the metropolis.

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.

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

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

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.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

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

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.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

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