Ancient Sea Kings

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:

    I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.
    Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

    Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs.
    Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows,
    Tower suddenly, spray-haired.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 1:1.