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)