Dante Alighieri Quotes, Running Quotes, Sea Quotes

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sea Quotes

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.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Voice Quotes

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Sea Quotes , Wish Quotes

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sea Quotes , People Quotes

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

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Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Healing Quotes , Sea Quotes

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.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , People Quotes

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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