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On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,... - MORE On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.

Elizabeth Bishop

ships and shipbuilding

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Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-or... - MORE Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-ordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized?... A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

D.H. Lawrence

museums and galleries

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Once it was a boat, quite wooden
and with no business, no salt water under it... - MORE Once it was a boat, quite wooden
and with no business, no salt water under it
and in need of some paint. It was no more
than a group of boards. But you hoisted her, rigged her.
She's been elected.

Anne Sexton

body

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A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast--the very rats
Instinctively have quit it. - MORE A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast--the very rats
Instinctively have quit it.

Shakespeare

ships and boats | animals

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I don't like your miserable lonely single "front name." It is so limited, so meagre; it has no versatility; it is weighted down wi... - MORE I don't like your miserable lonely single "front name." It is so limited, so meagre; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

D.H. Lawrence

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