Blue Ensign Flag

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

    “They said, “You have a blue guitar,
    You do not play things as they are.”
    The man replied, “Things as they are
    Are changed upon a blue guitar.””
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “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)