Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in southwestern Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. It is the largest city on the Mississippi River, second-largest city in Tennessee, as well as the 25th largest city in the United States.
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. Lord Byron, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron by Thomas Medwin (1823)