Dry Dock

Famous quotes containing the words dry dock, dry and/or dock:

    “It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The dry eucalyptus seeks god in the rainy cloud.
    Professor Eucalyptus of New Haven seeks him
    In New Haven with an eye that does not look
    Beyond the object.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “You turn
    To speak to someone beside the dock and the lighthouse
    Shines like garnets. It has become a stricture.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)