Ancient Sea Kings

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

    “Still green with bays each ancient altar stands
    Above the reach of sacrilegious hands,”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “the whole sea become an entanglement of watery bodies
    lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,

    beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up
    they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising
    in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “In a few years there will be only five kings in the world—the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.”
    —Farouk I (1920–1965)