Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as...
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John Steinbeck
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Victor Hugo
And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!
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Nina George
In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.
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Bryant McGill
When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work...
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Mary Ann Shaffer
More Quotes By John Masefield
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
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!
(...) It, s hard not to be able. There, look there! / I cannot get the movement nor the light;/ Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/ To try and try and never get it right./ Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,...
