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Quotes About Sea

I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by......
~ John Masefield
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied!
~ John Masefield
As I said previously do not eat the scavengers of the sea such as oysters, crabs, clams, snails, shrimp, eels, or catfish.
~ Elijah Muhammad
And when Italy's made, for what end is it done If we have not a son? When you have your country from mountain to sea, When King Victor has Italy's crown on his head. (And I have my dead.)
~ Eliza Calvert Hall
Were they waiting then, huddled together on that bench? Could they sense their gravest mistakes beside them, or know only that they would need to stay within reach of one another as they tested, in turn, how far they could wander from their shared shore before they risked being swept out to sea?
~ Elizabeth Ames
We have come here to dip me in warm sea-water, in order to an improvement in strength, for I have been very weak and unwell of late, as perhaps Mrs. Jameson has told you. But the sea and the change have brought me up again, as I hope they may yourself, and now I am looking forward to getting back to Italy for the winter, and perhaps to Rome.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The chains hung flashing in the wintry light, the sea combed gray and tired behind them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I am but a petty godling, it's true, but I am the god of the dark depths of passion, the sea that draws and gives back life. Tell you don't crave the attention.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Light had failed and with it its children, but these other children-the mortal children, candle-flickers-continud endlessly fighting and dying and returning their blood to the wash of the sorrowful sea. The mortals had a saying, that blood was thicker than water. But to Muire blood was water: the water of the ocean, and the force of the Light upon it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Spezia offered Leopold almost nothing: his precocity devoured itself there, rejecting the steep sunny coast and nibbling blue edge of the sea that had drowned Shelley. His spirit became crustacean under douches of culture and mild philosophic chat from his Uncle Dee, who was cultured rather than erudite.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
In this state, drugged by the rainy dusk, she almost always returned with sensual closeness to seaside childhood; once more she felt her heels in the pudding-softness of the hot tarred esplanade or her bare arm up to the elbow in rain-wet tamarisk. She smelt the shingle and heard it being sucked by the sea.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
The storm has passed." He nodded toward the clearing skies. "The stars have come out." He paused and gazed upward. "I miss them when I'm not at sea. Out on the ocean they sparkle all around you. 'Tis like standing at the gates of heaven." "Sounds glorious.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
And then the captains of merchant ships can take their wives to sea with them if they wish, and in the Navy they're not allowed to." "I shouldn't want to take my wife to sea with me," said William. "A wife would be fearfully in the way." Marianne gritted her teeth. Oh, to be a man, and not to be dependent upon the whim of a man to live!
~ Elizabeth Goudge
pero no era sólo que rayara el alba, sino que el silencio también se había roto. A lejos, tenue y misterioso, se presentía el ruido del mar.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.
~ Elizabeth Hay
The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.
~ Elizabeth Stoddard
This is the sea! It was like a foreign country to me. Except, in truth, foreign places always frighten me. I like places that are familiar.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not quite make out how many, and they were no doubt fishing, and Merritt (who disliked fish) wondered how people could spoil such an afternoon, such a sea, such pellucid and radiant air by trying to catch white, flabby, offensive, evil-smelling creatures that would be excessively nasty when cooked.
~ Arthur Machen
Evren suskundur gün boyunca lakin korkuyla bölünmüÅŸtür; leyli ateÅŸlerle ???k saçar ve Aegipan korusunun sesleri yank?lan?r her yan?nda: Deniz k?y?s? boyunca flütlerin ÅŸark?s? ve zillerin ç?nlamas? duyulur.
~ Arthur Machen
My sad heart foams at the stern.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I have bathed in the PoemOf the Sea…Devouring the green azures.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
~ Arthur Rimbaud