HMS Black Swan

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or swan:

    For all of him dead and
    gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
    clings to our speech black god of our time.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)