The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London
John MasefieldPeople who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
John MasefieldI have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
John MasefieldOff Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
John MasefieldSo death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.
John Masefield