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“2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90" by Ravi Nessman in the Associated Press (18 March 2008)
“Whence come the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned that they came out of the sea. The evidence is written in their rocks and in the walls of their peaks. It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wealth of the universe is all over your head. We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Darling maiden, who can be Ever found to equal thee? To thy service joyfully Shall my life be pledged by me. Thy sweet eyes gleam tenderly, Like soft moonbeams o’er the sea; Lights of rosy harmony O’er thy red cheeks wander free.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love's Salutation #1 The poems of Heine; Complete Part I, , by Heinrich Heine, Translator: Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908)
“The moon, too, hid herself Behind the clouds that darkly came over her; High up roarèd the sea, And then triumphantly stood in the heavens The stars all-eternal.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Gods of Greece, #VI, The poems of Heine; Complete Part II, , by Heinrich Heine, Translator: Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908)
“Nobody knows about my man. They think he's lost on some horizon. And suddenly I find myself Listening to a man I've never known before, Telling me about the sea, All his love, 'til Eternity.”
“Watching storms Start to form Over America. Can't do anything. Just watch them swing With the wind Out to sea.”
“Every sleepy light Must say goodbye To the day before it dies In a sea of honey A sky of honey Keep us close to your heart So if the skies turn dark We may live on in Comets and stars.”
“Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one, no one is here We stand in the Atlantic We become panoramic...”
“The stars are caught in our hair The stars are on our fingers A veil of diamond dust Just reach up and touch it The sky's above our heads The sea's around our legs In milky, silky water We swim further and further...”
“We dive deeper and deeper Could be we are here Could be in my dream It came up on the horizon Rising and rising In a sea of honey, a sky of honey.”
“Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.”
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But we grow old. Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Golden Year", st. 3 (1842)
“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 1
“Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 4
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Eagle" (1851)
“O young Mariner, You from the haven Under the sea-cliff, You that are watching The gray Magician With eyes of wonder, I am Merlin, And I am dying, I am Merlin Who follow The Gleam.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Merlin and the Gleam", st. 1 (1889)
“Broad-based upon her people’s will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Queen, st. 9 (1851)
“Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst—yea—drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cup, Act i, Scene 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sir Richard spoke and he laughed, and we roared a hurrah, and so The little Revenge ran on sheer into the heart of the foe, With her hundred fighters on deck, and her ninety sick below; For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen, And the little Revenge ran on through the long sea-lane between.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dust always blowing about the town, Except when sea-fog laid it down, And I was one of the children told Some of the blowing dust was gold.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written in 1926
“The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be — The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings-on of life, Inaudible as dreams!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frost at Midnight", l. 11 (1798)
“Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fancy in Nubibus", l. 11 (1818)
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They stood aloof, the scars remaining,— Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death — & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End — for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
“Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples (1818), st. 5
“As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in New York City at the Dedication of the East Coast Memorial to the Missing at Sea (203)" (23 May 1963) Quoting an old Breton fishermen's prayer that Admiral Rickover had inscribed on plaques that he gave to ne…
“milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea”
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: maggie and milly and molly and may", New Poems (1957), p. 38
“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My soul is full of longing For the secret of the Sea, And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Shall die fighting or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song for the Luddites (1816).
“My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea; But, before I go, Tom Moore. Here's a double health to thee!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1817 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Thomas Moore, st. 1 (1817).
“O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 22 Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway,— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath and bloom, shade and shine, — wonder, wealth, and — how far above them —”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Travelled among Unknown Men, st. 1 (wr. 1798–1801; pub. 1807)
“The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) first seen 1805 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, st. 4 (wr. 1805; pub. 1807)