Chiefs Quote by John Betjeman

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the…

— John Betjeman

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am…

— Joseph Brodsky

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

— Mason Cooley

The poetry of country music will survive.

— Rodney Crowell

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world,

— Fyodor Tyutchev

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

— Bill Watterson

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their…

— Wade Davis

Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography,…

— David Abram

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career…

— Jonathan Meades

Science is the topography of ignorance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

— KT Tunstall

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

— Michael Polanyi

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

— Robert Southey