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 William Stafford
Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again, and said so, again.
This dream the world is having about itselfincludes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my father showed us allone day while meadowlarks were trying to tellsomething better about to happen.
If you don't know the kind of person I amand I don't know the kind of person you area pattern that others made may prevail in the worldand following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
