Turkish Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words turkish and/or fleet:

    “A Turkish bath—that marble paradise of sherbert and sodomy.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)