Sha-Kon-O-Hey! Land of Blue Smoke

Famous quotes containing the words land, blue and/or smoke:

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

““... Can poet’s thought
That springs from body and in body falls
Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
Be mimicry?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)