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• I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Fall, Purple

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.95, Emblem Editions

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• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

  George Chapman

  Life, Running, Wind

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  Barry Lyga

  Eye, Past, Land

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Glasses, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.693, Wordsworth Editions

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• The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

  Ramakrishna

  Moving, Grace, Boat

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• But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

  William Cowper

  Heaven, Toil, Lost

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.226

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• Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.

  Christopher Cross

  Wind, Paradise, Tranquility

  Song: Sailing, Album: Christopher Cross

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• Behold the threaden sails,
  Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
  Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
  Breasting the lofty surge

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Sea, Ships

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.723, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Lovely Arra Sails,
  nectar to all males,
  how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

  Darren Shan

  Whales, Lovely, Males

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• And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Swans, Two

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

  Wernher von Braun

  Heaven, Three, Mars

  Wernher Von Braun (1991). “The Mars Project”, p.2, University of Illinois Press

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• She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

  Robert Southey

  Flirting, Play, Way

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey”, p.99

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• O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Port, Strikes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

  William Petersen

  Ocean, Writing, Reader

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• Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

  Horatio Nelson

  Military, Taken, Done

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• As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Anchors, Sea

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.15

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• The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

  Alice Clayton

  Rocks, Want, Boat

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Men, Arms

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

  Robert Goolrick

  Heart, Grace, Skins

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• Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wings, Bird, Tree

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.18

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• Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Hands, Forever, Might

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Running, Real, Lying

  Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

  Fisher Ames

  Rocks, Feet, Water

  Attributed to Ames, speaking in the House of Representatives, 1795; quoted by R. W. Emerson in 'Essays' (2nd series, 1844) no. 7, but not traced in Ames's speeches

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• Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
  You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Wind, Trying, Three

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• You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Destination, Can't Change

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