Floating Dry Dock

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

    “I myself have seen the floating ships
    And nothing will ever be the same
    The shouts,
    The harrowing voices within the house.
    I stand apart with an army:
    My mind is graven with ships.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)

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