North Atlantic Drift

Famous quotes containing the words north, atlantic and/or drift:

    “Refinement’s origin:
    the remote north country’s
    rice-planting song.”
    —Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)

    “Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
    Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
    When such a destin’d wretch as I,
    Wash’d headlong from on board,
    Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
    His floating home for ever left.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “But now they drift on the still water,
    Mysterious, beautiful;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)