"Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea."
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"His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated."
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"For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief."
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"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
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"There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni."
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"Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log."
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"The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences."
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"From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it."
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"The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea."
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"I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore."
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"For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence."
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"The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice."
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"Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn."
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"Over the wine-dark sea."
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"The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe."
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"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
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"Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider."
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"You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer."
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"Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!"
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"Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on."
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