Iron Rails

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or rails:

“Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)