Japanese Fleet Carriers

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, fleet and/or carriers:

    “I am a lantern—
    My head a moon
    Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
    Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Nature, doubtless, has some compelling cause
    To glut the carriers of her epidemics—
    Nor did the peach complain.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)