Lifeboat Quotes

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat”
― Neal Shusterman

“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“…one of the coasts of a country that was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat was under siege by people who wanted to be taken on board. She thought to the southern shores of Italy and the boats that came up from the south, crammed with the desperate of North Africa striving to get into Europe. The vessels capsized under their human cargo; there were people in the water, their dream coming to a watery end. How could one turn one’s face against all of that? What sort of person would one have to be to sail past?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Novel Habits of Happiness

“This old world will soon break into pieces! Don’t you hear the tremblings of it?”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness