Robinson/ships

Famous quotes containing the words robinson and/or ships:

“I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
As one or two that I have seen elsewhere:
An apparatus not for me to mend—
A wreck, with hell between him and the end.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)