Tall Ships Youth

Famous quotes containing the words tall ships, tall, ships and/or youth:

    “There is regret. Always, there is regret.
    But it is better that our lives unloose,
    As two tall ships, wind-mastered, wet with light,
    Break from an estuary with their courses set,
    And waving part, and waving drop from sight.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “How tall the buildings were as I began
    To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
    —Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)

    “A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)