Blue Ensign Flag

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ensign and/or flag:

    “The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
    Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “—Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence
    Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,
    The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare
    At the North Pole. . .
    And now what? Why, go back.

    Turn as I please, my step is to the south.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)