Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or lowell:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
—John Webster (c. 1580–1638)
“A very little thing, a little worm,
Or hourglass-blazoned spider, it is said,
Can kill a tiger.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)