Rome was a poem proverb

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Caesar had a deaf-mute barber because he was epileptic and didn't want people to hear about his fits. I was in Rome for a year without a line to learn, after a month I had seen all there was to see and been to every restaurant, Rome is actually quite a small city.

George Cole

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

Clive James (1939-)

The students write songs of themselves. First they draw paintings about what they feel and see to get to the heart of the poem. It's not an easy poem but they come away liking the poem.

Lee Keylock

A poem should be palpable and mute / As a globed fruit, / Dumb / As old medallions to the thumb . . . / A poem should be equal to / Not true . . . / A poem should not mean / But be.

Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Giotto di Bondone

In the history of the Rome Center, there's always been a kind of tug between Chicago and Rome, ... The people who are in charge of the Rome Center feel as though they're under constraints from Chicago and the people in Chicago want to treat the Rome Center as if that's an extension of our school here.... If it's true that no full-time faculty are going over there at all ... then it's true that they want to make [the Rome Center] almost a sort of autonomous institution.

Kenneth Thompson

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Jag har övertagit en stad av råtegel och efterlämnar en stad av marmor.

Augustus Caesar

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

This is a city where you can go from Bernini to Michelangelo to Julius Caesar to Meier. This is what we want to protect, Rome's double identity. The city as a rigorous protector of its past but also driven towards the future.

Walter Veltroni

We count on the city for fire service, but we've contemplated starting our own fire service in the past. (Universities) have two options: you either work with the city or you start your own fire service.

Dennis Bailey

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

Philip Levine

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