Japanese Ship Naming

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, ship and/or naming:

“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The ship was still as she could be;”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)

“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)