Navy Blue Border

Famous quotes containing the words navy, blue and/or border:

    “I call to mind the navy great
    That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
    And how the boistous winds did beat
    Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
    Till Agamemnon’s daughter’s blood
    Appeased the gods that them withstood.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    “They said, “You have a blue guitar,
    You do not play things as they are.”
    The man replied, “Things as they are
    Are changed upon a blue guitar.””
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Swift while the woof is whole,
    turn now my spirit, swift,
    and tear the pattern there,
    the flowers so deftly wrought,
    the border of sea-blue,
    the sea-blue coast of home.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)