maps quotes

The art of Biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about Maps, But Biography is about Chaps.

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  Biography for Beginners, introduction.

  The faces of most American women over thirtyare relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
  Letter, 5 Oct.

We are volcanoes.When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

- Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
   Address at Mills College. Collected as'A Left-Handed Commencement  Address' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head. 934 Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Long-Legged Fly', l.5^10. Collected in Last Poems (1939).