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We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass. — Tom Althouse

Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. — Charlotte Eriksson

More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea. — Marty Rubin

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life. — Comte De Lautreamont

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear. — Sylvia Plath

She took the sea with her
Not beaches but the grey
relentless Irish sea,
its rhythm and the crying gulls. — Caroline Davies

Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry? — Terrance Lane Millet

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. — Kahlil Gibran

Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea. — Dylan Thomas

the dolphins stitch sky to sea. — Ellen Bass

The sea waves stirred before me
they dashed against the rocks
Like a mermaid rising from its depths
curled white sea foam were her locks ... — Giselle V. Steele

But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden — William Carlos Williams

The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance. — Anne Michaels

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. — Siri Hustvedt

I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me — Laurie Matthew

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well. — Charlotte Eriksson

I loved them as poets love the poetry
that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea. — Derek Walcott

Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. — Li-Young Lee

I cast my eyes out to the sea
And gaze at all eternity.
until forever turns to night.
My eyes then lift to catch starlight. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard

The red washing
down the bathtub
can't change the color of the sea
at all. — Derrick Brown

My pond life with hydra is over; now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.. — Munia Khan

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets. — Peter Kreeft

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike

Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea — Sarah Hymas

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. — Benjamin Franklin

I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn't do him justice. — Zorgie Adriana Sanchez

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

The sea is dangerous, they say, but not if you're the sea. — Sarah Maclay

Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?
If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt? — Pablo Neruda

The edge of the sea masks a clock that marks the waves. — Gwen Calvo

Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine. — Sara Teasdale

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg

the ocean mist
engulfs me, like a lifetime's
friendship honored. — Sanober Khan

We are hooked hearts thrown
into the sea that catch everything. — Krysten Hill

We went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea ... — John Geddes

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea. — Sanober Khan

The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ... — Muse

Stars are out and there is sea
enough beneath the glistening earth
to bear me toward the future
which is not so dark. I see. — Frank O'Hara

To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets — Eileen Granfors

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that. — Ellie Goulding

I sang in my chains like the sea — Dylan Thomas

The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water. — Langston Hughes

The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. — G.K. Chesterton

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? — Joshua Slocum

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. — Carl Sandburg