Quotes by Sea I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young. Anne Rivers Siddons sea running beach The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. Anne Sexton fog sea home The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. Anne Sexton mother sea winning Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea. Anne Sexton sea dark golf Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me. Anne Sexton addiction voice sea God went out of me Anne Sexton god sea religion God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse. Anne Sexton despair body sea Once upon a time we were all born, Anne Sexton oxygen sea country My objects dream and wear new costumes, Anne Sexton sea dream hands The sea is as near as we come to another world. Anne Stevenson ocean sea water At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. Annie Dillard waiting sea listening The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. Annie Dillard ocean sea beach I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive. Annie Dillard dolphins skins sea Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water. Annie Dillard keys sea water The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried. Annie Dillard stars sea long I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy. Anthony Doerr sea lakes thinking When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery cutting sea people When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sea men order If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sea want men Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sea clouds lying «4567891011121314»