Inland Ice Sheet

Famous quotes containing the words inland, ice and/or sheet:

    “Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod.... But having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I know the ice in your drink is senile.
    I know your smile will develop a boil.
    You know only that you are on top,
    swinging like children on the money swing....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “A speck that would have been beneath my sight
    On any but a paper sheet so white
    Set off across what I had written there.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)