Spanish Ships

Famous quotes containing the words spanish ships, spanish and/or ships:

“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“In French literature, you can choose “à la carte”; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)