harbour quotes

Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.

- Daniel Defoe
^7  Of Kirkcudbright, Scotland.  A  Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter12.

O the Harbour of Fowey Is a beautiful spot, And it's there I enjowey To sail in a yot; Or to race in a yacht Round a mark or a buoy Such a beautiful spacht Is the Harbour of Fuoy!

- SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
  A Fowey Garland,'The Harbour of Fowey'.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

- Carl Sandburg
  Chicago Poems,'Fog'.

It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Poem in October'.

Pale rain over the dwindling harbour And over the sea wet church the size of a snail With its horns through mist and the castle Brown as owls.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Poem in October'.

Civilisation is a movement and not a condition; a voyage and not a harbour.

- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct1958.