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“I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.”

Soul Waiting Cities Attention Quiet Travel Garden Stones Riches Architecture Treasure Wander Yield Formal Medieval Introspective Courteous Clamor Hidden Treasure

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?”

Real Reason Fall Travel Stones Falling In Love Flesh Translate Inhibitions

Book:An Accidental Autobiography

Source: An Accidental Autobiography

“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”

Ifs Said Care Literature Subjects Changed Travel Stones Window Don't Care London I Don't Care Yards Shrines Imbeciles

Author:Carolyn Wells

“may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.”

World May Home Travel Stones Rounds Smooth

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”

Feels Doe Home Travel Stones Rolling Rolling Stones

Author:Bob Dylan

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.”

Men Littles Travel Stones Good Things Good Rolling Funny Travel Polish Rolling Stones Settling Down Moss Naturalist Wanderers

Author:John Burroughs