Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or ships:
“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)