Steam Locomotive Wheel

Famous quotes containing the words steam, locomotive and/or wheel:

    “The windows were then closed and the steam turned on. There was a sign up saying that no one could smoke, but you couldn’t help it. You were lucky if you didn’t burst into flames.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “Let the wheel spin out,
    Till all created things
    With shout and answering shout
    Cast off rememberings....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)