Empire Flying Boats

Famous quotes containing the words empire, flying and/or boats:

    Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And more I may not write of, for they that cleave
    The waters of sleep can make a chattering tongue
    Heavy like stone, their wisdom being half silence.
    How shall I name you, immortal, mild, proud shadows?
    I only know that all we know comes from you,
    And that you come from Eden on flying feet.

    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The frowsy sponge boats keep coming in
    with the obliging air of retrievers,
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)