Small Boat

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or boat:

    “Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quite well developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don’t think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you’ll see what I mean.”
    —Northrop Frye (1912–1991)

    “The boat is made of dry reeds, and a monkey is steering it.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.