whales quotes

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.

Many-maned scud-thumper, tub of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub- ruster, sky-mocker, rave! portly pusher of waves, wind-slave.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Telephone Poles and Other Poems,'Winter Ocean'.