Famous quotes containing the words ship, naming and/or conventions:
“The worlds a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
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