Famous quotes containing the words guardian, sailor and/or moon:
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, its modern architecture.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)
“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)
“I thought to hear him speak
the girl might rise
and make the garden silver,
as the white moon breaks,
Nossis, he cried, a flame.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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