Famous quotes containing the words eternal, sailor and/or moon:
“There are still other made-up countries
Where we can hide forever,
Wasted with eternal desire and sadness,
Sucking the sherbets, crooning the tunes, naming the names.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long headno intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Then they seen it, the old Missouri River shinin in the moon and across it the lights of St. Louis.”
—Dudley Nichols (18951960)