Australian South Sea

Famous quotes containing the words south sea, australian, south and/or sea:

    “There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear—the city of London and the South Seas.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs
    boiling, over the west past all control
    rolling and swamps the heartbeat and repeats
    sea beyond sea after unbearable suns;
    think: poems fixed this landscape: Blake, Donne, Keats.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)