Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or ships:
“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)