iceberg quotes

The ship's ignored.The iceberg rises and sinks again; its glassy pinnacles correct elliptics in the sky. This is a scene where he who treads the boards is artlessly rhetorical.

- Elizabeth Bishop
  'The Imaginary Iceberg'.

Proves she like some portent of an iceberg Swimming full upon the ship it founders Hungry with huge teeth of splintered crystals?

- Robert Browning
  Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza17.