Time Ships

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or ships:

“There is every reason to rejoice with those self-styled prophets of commercial disaster, those harbingers of gloom,
Over the imminent lateness of the denouement that, advancing slowly, never arrives,
At the same time keeping the door open to a tongue-in-cheek attitude on the part of the perpetrators....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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