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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!
I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.
I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.
Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.
wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.
The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.
The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.
You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.
Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.