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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Alexander Smith
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
Henry David Thoreau, The Writing
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
Rachel Carson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Remarks
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.
Source Unknown
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Hermann Broch
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
Anne Sexton
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
Adrienne Rich
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
Hans Christian Andersen
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.Autumn leaves and rain,The passion of the gale.
Robert Louis Stevenson, It Blows
You are the daughter of the sea,oregano's first cousin.Swimmer, your body is pure as the water;cook, your blood is quick as the soil.Everything you do is full of flowers, rich with the earth.Your eyes go out toward the water, and the waves rise;your hands go out to the earth and the seeds swell;you know the deep essence of water and the earth,conjoined in you like a formula for clay.Naiad: cut your body into turquoise pieces,they will bloom resurrected in the kitchen.This is how you become everything that lives.And so at last, you sleep, in the circle of my armsthat push back the shadows so that you can rest -vegetables, seaweed, herbs: the foam of your dreams.
Pablo Neruda
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
John Florio
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Edward Masefield
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
John Keats
