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Quotes About Sea

Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss! Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
~ Allen Ginsberg
An Eastern Ballad I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
~ Allen Ginsberg
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle
~ Ambrose Bierce
Mournfully and low the man of God began his eulogy of the dead, and his doleful voice, mingled with the sobbing that it was its purpose to stimulate and sustain, rose and fell, seemed to come and go, like the sound of a sullen sea.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You are ragged for a merchant.' 'I didn't say I was a good one.' 'And young,' said the captain. 'I didn't say I was an old one.' 'Where is your ship?' 'At sea.' 'Why are you not aboard?' 'I thought it wise to leave before it touched the bottom.
~ Joe Abercrombie
above him, the crossed hammers and the lion, holed and torn from victories in the North but never taken by an enemy. He smiled up as the sea wind made it flap and
~ Joe Abercrombie
Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.
~ Joë Bousquet
they had eaten at a place called Terry's for lunch, Terry's Primo Subs in Hampton, which was back in New Hampshire, on the sea.
~ Joe Hill
The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
~ Khalil Gibran
One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
~ John Berryman
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
~ Joseph Conrad
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.
~ Rudy Wiebe
Light breaks where no sun shines;Where no sea runs, the waters of the heartPush in their tides.
~ Dylan Thomas
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
~ Dylan Thomas
An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
~ Dylan Thomas
Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.
~ Dylan Thomas
There shall be corals in your beds, There shall be serpents in your tides, Till all our sea-faiths die.
~ Dylan Thomas
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
~ Dylan Thomas