Pacific Gray Whale

Famous quotes containing the words pacific, gray and/or whale:

    The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
    That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
    Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Where ignorance is bliss,
    ‘Tis folly to be wise.
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
    A darkening shudder; water fell away;
    The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.
    Yvor Winters (1900–1968)