I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 21:21.

I wander through each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'London'.

The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed build that nation's fate. The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's winding sheet.

-Blake,William
c.1803  Auguries of Innocence, l.113^6

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

-Campbell, Mrs Patrick ne¤  e Beatrice Rose StellaTanner
Quoted in Daphne Fielding The Duchess of  Jermyn Street (1964), ch.2. Sometimes attributed to Edward VII.

The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference betweenwatching a great manwalkdownthe street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.

-Copland, Aaron
Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, 9  Jun1995.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

-DeVoto, Bernard
The Hour.

Wasthere ever sucha sunnystreet asthis Broadway! The pavement stones are polished with thetread of feet until they shine again† Heaven save the ladies, how they dress! We have seen more colours in these ten minutes, than we should have seen elsewhere, in as many days. What various parasols! what rainbow silks and satins! what pinking of thin stockings and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  American Notes.

Come and meet those dancing feet On the avenue I'm taking you to Forty-Second Street.

-Dubin, Al
  From the title song, Forty-Second Street. Music by Harry Warren.

The morning comes to consciousness Of faint stale smells of beer From the sawdust-trampled street.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'Preludes', pt.2.

Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

-Fields, Dorothy
  'On the Sunny Side of the Street'.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.

-Foote, Samuel
Responding to a challenge from the actor Charles Macklin that there was no speech he could not repeat from memory after just one hearing. Macklin had to acknowledge defeat. Foote's phrases 'no soap'and 'the grand Panjandrum' became widely adopted. Quoted in Maria Edgeworth Harry and Lucy (1825), vol.2.

I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street In case a certain little lady comes by.

-Gay, Noel pseudonym of  Richard Moxon Armitage
  Song sung by George Formby, featured in the film Feather Your Nest.

I put the muzzle of the revolver into my right ear and pulled the trigger† I was out by one. I remember an extraordinary sense of jubilation, as if carnival lights had been switched on in a drab street. My heart knocked in its cage, and life contained an infinite number of possibilities.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
Recalling a game of Russian roulette with his brother's revolver in1923.  A Sort of Life, ch.6, pt.2.

Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.

-Jonas, George
  A Passion Observed:  The Story of a Motorcycle Racer.

But then they danced down the street like dingle- dodies, and Ishambled afteras I've beendoing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'

-Kerouac,Jack (John)
  On The Road, pt.1, ch.1.

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Traffics and Discoveries,'Mrs Bathhurst'.

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking inthestreet, Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Puck of Pook's Hill,'Smuggler's Song'.

I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Romeöthat they should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.

-Knight, Frank Hyneman
  Collected in Essays on theHistory and Method of Economics (1956).

Out into the street I ran uproarious The devil dancing in me glorious.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'The Everlasting Mercy'.