A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.
Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Everything has a place and time.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
A place for everything, everything in its place.