Dark Squared Bishop

Famous quotes containing the words dark, squared and/or bishop:

    ‘Who is it that this dark night
    Underneath my window plaineth?’
    Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    Dreams are toys.
    Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,
    I will be squared by this.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)