Square Sails

Famous quotes containing the words square and/or sails:

    “Rationalists, wearing square hats,
    Think, in square rooms,
    Looking at the floor,
    Looking at the ceiling.
    They confine themselves
    To right-angled triangles.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Fair stood the wind for France,
    When we our sails advance,
    Nor now to prove our chance
    Longer will tarry;”
    —Michael Drayton (1563–1631)