Square Sails

Famous quotes containing the words square and/or sails:

“Houses haunt me.
That last house!
How it sat like a square box!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)