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 C.S. Pacat
I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,
To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.
Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.
Damen found himself alongside Jord. ‘If you want to live, ride fast.’ White-faced, Jord took one look at his expression and said, ‘He’s not coming.’‘ We’re outnumbered, ’ said Damen, ‘but if you run, you might still make it out.’‘ If we’re outnumbered, what are...
Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.
