Black Sea State

Famous quotes containing the words black, sea and/or state:

    “The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall,
    Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals,
    Focus the tragic melancholy of the bright stare
    Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
    They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown’d.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity—a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.”
    —Norman Douglas (1868–1952)