Shore Quotes - Page 28

• Sssh says the ocean
  Sssh says the small wave at the shore
  sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
  Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
  Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?

  Mary Ashley Townsend

  Love, Kissing, Sea

  Mary Ashley Townsend (1873). “Xariffa's Poems”, p.25

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• Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?

  Kofi Awoonor

  Lying, Doe, Needs

  Kofi Awoonor (1987). “Until the morning after: selected poems, 1963-85”, Greenfield Review Pr

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• If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Morning, People, Bird

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• It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Frustration, Wind, Sailing

  Ernest K. Gann (2000). “Song of the Sirens”, p.37, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Ocean, Night

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• When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Shelter, Firsts, Unbearable

  Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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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 speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Ocean, Depth, Plunge

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

  Khalil

  Song, Heart, Sea

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• You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

  Susan Strasberg

  Ocean, Wave, Faster

  Susan Strasberg (1980). “Bittersweet”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Sea, Tree

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.45, Vintage

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• A man is an island, but the water is deep
  And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
  To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
  It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
  When you look for independence and you get what you want
  How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
  But time and again, it dawns on me
  It's the price we pay for liberty
  I should have know, we all need a place to call home

  Joey Tempest

  Song, Lonely, Home

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Loss, Lakes

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

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• And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Memories, Soul, Passed Away

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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• For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Fate, Risk, Sailing

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• For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wind, Water, Sun

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.666, Delphi Classics

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• Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

  Bayard Taylor

  War, Hands, Mountain

  bayard taylor “views a-foot”

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• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Past, Generosity

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Lecture given at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 30, 1997.

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• The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  School, Olives, Losing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.

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• My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.

  Michael Dorris

  Son, Night, Men

  The Broken Cord ch. 14 (1989)

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• Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Brother, Lying

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• Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.

  Hugh Walpole

  Running, Country, Book

  Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”

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