Sailing Stones

Famous quotes containing the words sailing and/or stones:

    The Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew
    With Christian and with Infidel
    For all tongues he knew.
    “O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
    And he came sailing home.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers
    Hooked in the stones of the wall,
    Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)