sail quotes

Not everyone can sail to Corinth.

-Anonymous
ie, not everybody has the same opportunities. Greek proverb, which is also mentioned by Horace Epistulae,1.17.36:'Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum'.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

- Matthew Arnold
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.43^5.

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast

- Allan Cunningham
  'A  Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea', stanza1.

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his sail Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carollings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through 382 His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.

-Thomas Hardy
  'The Darkling Thrush'.

   My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  Death of a Naturalist,'Follower'.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

-John Edward Masefield
  'Sea Fever'.

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'.