Tropical Storm Force

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or force:

    “Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
    —Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)

    “Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
    like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
    listen to it growling.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
    Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
    Is my destroyer.
    And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
    My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)