Quotations About / On: SEA

  • 41.
    I started Early—Took my Dog—
    And visited the Sea—
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I started Early—Took my Dog (l. 1-2). CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 42.
    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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  • 43.
    If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
    (Eleonora Duse (1859-1924), Italian actor. As quoted in Actors on Acting, rev. ed., part 11, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich (1970). The great stage actor had an omnipresent aura of sadness and was reticent and retiring.)
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  • 44.
    To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
    (Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929), U.S. sociologist. Human Nature and the Social Order, ch. 6 (1902).)
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  • 45.
    You've got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea.
    (Ted Koehler (1894-1973), U.S. songwriter. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," Rhythmania, Mills Music, Inc. (1931). Music composed by Harold Arlen (1905-1986).)
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  • 46.
    Weed, moss-weed,
    root tangled in sand,
    sea-iris, brittle flower.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Sea Iris.")
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  • 47.
    About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
    Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
    The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
    (Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Maldive Shark (l. 1-3). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.)
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  • 48.
    The god Janus never had two more decidedly different faces than your sea captain.
    (Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" (1847), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987).)
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  • 49.
    the closer I move
    To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
    The louder the sun blooms
    And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults....
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Poem on his birthday.")
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  • 50.
    It's honest, the sea. It makes you face things honestly, doesn't it?
    (Philip Dunne (1908-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Mrs. Muir (Gene Tierney), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). To Capt. Gregg, while they are working on their book. From the novel by R.A. Dick.)
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