Battle Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

— Lisa Joy

“Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth

“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away. Skyscrapers Made…

— Matt Haig

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

— Carl Sandburg

“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:—in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. To…

— George Eliot

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present:…

— Randall Jarrell