‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand,...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.
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Jim Lynch
At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the...
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Herman Melville
I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.
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J.a. Redmerski
I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.
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Bill Bryson
More Quotes By Lauren DeStefano
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
