Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.
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