Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“he bowed and
not flinching from her black breath
gave her his arm....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)