Quote#Freedom
During the last years of the war I went to live in BROOKLYN in the…
Quote byJoseph Stella · 1877–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Brooklyn Bridge (A page of my life)," 1929, p. 86.
English (original)
During the last years of the war I went to live in BROOKLYN in the most forlorn region of the oceanic tragic city, in Williamsburg, near the bridge. Brooklyn gave me a sense of liberation. The vast view of her sky, in opposition to the narrow one of NEW YORK, was a relief — and at night, in her solitude, I used to find, intact, the green freedom of my own self.
— Joseph Stella
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