Poetry Quote by Sarah Hymas Download Open image ““Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea”” — Sarah Hymas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poetry quotes
“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Even captains were pawns to the lords of the sea, who moved them – and sacrificed them – wither they would.” — M. Kei Copy Share Image
“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For a moment, he was still that man, a boy, in that country, in that harbor, with his back to the years that had… — Paul Yoon Copy Share Image
“I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them. — Homer Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
