City Sea Gulls

Famous quotes containing the words city, sea and/or gulls:

    “I counted two and seventy stenches,
    All well defined and several stinks!
    Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks,
    The river Rhine, it is well known,
    Doth wash your city of Cologne;
    But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine
    Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “Through the hollow globe, a ring
    of frayed rusty scrapiron,
    is it the sea that shines?
    Is it a road at the world’s edge?”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
    Where gulls blew over a wave
    That fell along miles of sand....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)