Sailor Star Maker

Famous quotes containing the words sailor, star and/or maker:

    “The soger frae the wars returns,
    The sailor frae the main,
    But I hae parted frae my Love,
    Never to meet again, my dear,
    Never to meet again.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “One year
    They sent a million here:
    Here men were drunk like water, burnt like wood.
    The fat of good
    And evil, the breast’s star of hope
    Were rendered into soap.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “A cry of bitter dead men who will never
    Attend a gentle maker of musical joy.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)