>
>As it happens, the passage is found at
>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/q141627.html
>This page gives no source that I can find, but it sounds like it
>comes from the 1913 "Patria Mia."
>
>And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? / It is not far
>from it. No urban nightS is/ARE like the nightS there. [...] / Squares after
>squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry,
>for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
p. 32-33. PARIA MIA Chicago: Ralph Fletcher, 1950. Seems to be
discussing architecture. The quote is not exactly right either, see
caps above.
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Charles A. Perrone,
Dept.of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL)
University of Florida Dauer Hall 170
Gainesville FL 32611-7405