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The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea.... Horses eat oats and hay....
(Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Ippolit Ippolitovich in The Teacher of Literature, Works, vol. 8, p. 328, "Nauka" (1976).
Statements of the obvious widely quoted by Russians.)
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I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The North Ship.")
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I could never remember
That seething, steady leveling of the marshes
Till age had brought me to the sea.
(Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Repose of Rivers (l. 3-5). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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The atoms of Democritus
And Newton's particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau (l. 9-12). . .
The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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For she walks above earth,
along the sea-coast,
and across the salt trail
of the sea-drift.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hippolytus.")
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
(Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer. Don Quixote, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, ch. 23, trans. by P. Motteux (1605).)
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Broken by great waves,
the wavelets flung it here,
this sea-gliding creature,
this strange creature like a weed....
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hermonax.")
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Poet, patting more nonsense foamed
From the sea, conceive for the courts
Of these academies, the diviner health
Disclosed in common forms.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Prelude to Objects.")
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