Small Submerged Reef

Famous quotes containing the words small, submerged and/or reef:

    “Sweet death, small son, our instrument
    Of immortality,
    Your cries and hungers document
    Our bodily decay.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “As the bird trims her to the gale,
    I trim myself to the storm of time,
    I man the rudder, reef the sail,
    Obey the voice at eve obeyed in prime:
    “Lowly faithful, banish fear,
    Right onward drive unharmed;
    The port, well worth the cruise, is near,
    And every wave is charmed.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)