Shore Quotes - Page 29

• Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Flower, Hero, Sunset

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Thinking, Sight

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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• You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Swim, Venture

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.148, Routledge

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• From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Struggle

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• To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Distance, Views

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".

  Christopher Columbus

  Ocean, Sight, Land

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• Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Real, Historical, Events

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• The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

  Lucy Larcom

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.8

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• The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Casts, Repeats

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Light, Ohio

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.

  Mati Unt

  Depression, Children, Book

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• What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

  Robert Herrick

  Sea, Ships, Navigation

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

  Cher

  Clueless, School, Boys

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• My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

  Pauly Shore

  Mom, Dad, Roots

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• A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

  Peter O'Toole

  Sea, Rocks, Victory

  "Fictional character: Cornelius Flavius Silva". "Masada", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Thousands of stars in the night sky,
  And shells on the shore together,
  Hundreds of birds that go singing by,
  Especially in sunny weather.
  Millions of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
  Thousands of leaves in the fall,
  Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
  But only one father, that's all.
  Happy Birthday
  To the One and Only

  John Walter Bratton

  Stars, Father, Fall

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Cosmos, Ankles

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

  Barack Obama

  America, Identity, Genius

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.231, Canongate Books

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• When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

  Dogen

  Confused, Moving, Eye

  "Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries".

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• I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

  Zubin Mehta

  Jealous, Lakes, People

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• As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.

  John-David F. Bartoe

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Regret, Flower, Suffering

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• Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Knowing, Saving, Fahrenheit 451 Book

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

  William Carlos Williams

  Mind, Bed, Made

  'Paterson' (1946) bk. 1, preface

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