Quotes About Inlets

There is no sight moves me more than the jagged Olympics floating above the islands and inlets of Puget Sound.

I don't envy the mule his labyrinthine inlets, those indispensable side-intelligencers.

This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

The water of inlets winking in the sincere light of day, under a sky as blue and brainless as the love of God.

The police car bellowed through the night. The tail lights of the car in front came closer. All around them, but especially to the right, lay Stockholm with its hundreds of thousands of glittering lights reflecting in dark bays and inlets. Church spires stood silhouetted against a starry sky. The moon was out. "Now we've got the son