Gentle Waves

Famous quotes containing the words gentle and/or waves:

“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,
How mony lengthen’d, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“He says the waves in the ship’s wake
are like stones rolling away.
I don’t see it that way.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)