Famous quotes containing the words big, blue and/or deck:
“The teeming Autumn big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime
Like widowed wombs after their lords decease.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The extra worry began iton the
Blue blue mountainshe never set foot
And then and there. Meanwhile the host
Mourned her quiet tenure. They all stayed chatting.
No one did much about eating.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I sang as one
Who on a tilting deck sings
To keep mens courage up, though the wake hangs
That shall cut off their sun.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)