Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
Waves Breaking quotes
Waves Breaking
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck."
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