south quotes

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!

-JohnWilkes Booth
   Attributed, as he shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington DC,14  Apr.'Sic semper tyrannis', Thus always to tyrants, is the motto of the Commonwealth of  Virginia.

The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

- Pauline Johnson
  'Canadian Born', collected in Flint and Feather (1912).

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Proven c° al song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 2.

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Letter to  J Middleton Murry, 3 Oct.

While the South is hardly Christ-centred, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

- (Mary) Flannery O'Connor
  'Some  Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction'. Paper read at  Wesleyan College, Fall.

In a Lancashire cotton-town you could probably go for months on end without once hearing an'educated' accent, whereas there can hardly be a town in the South of England where youcould throwa brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.7.

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

- Robert Edwin Peary
  Description of crossing and then passing the Pole. The North Pole (published1910).

   O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas1^2.

O tell her, Swallow that thy brood is flown: Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 6.

In the South, the war is what is elsewhere: they date from it.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
AD1883  Of theAmerican CivilWar. Life on the Mississippi, ch.45.