Provence quotes

He played an ancient ditty, long since mute, In Provence called,'La belle dame sans mercy'.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 33.

Is it any better in Heaven, my friend Ford, Than you found it in Provence?

-William Carlos Williams
  TheWedge,'To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven'.