Tennessee quotes

I was inTennessee 24 hours and got 99 years.

-James Earl Ray
  On beginning the 20th year of his prison sentence for the assassination of Martin Luther King. In Life, March.

I placed a jar inTennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Anecdote of theJar'.