to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea

“From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee…

— Herman Melville

I dropped a tear in the sea, the day you find it is the day I'll stop missing you.

— Anonymous

“How deep is your soul? Is it an ocean..full of beauty and mystery, wild and free…having pearls in its deep..?”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked…

— Doris Eaton Travis

“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell”

— John Sterling

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if…

— Laurie Graham

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the…

— Stephan Hoeller

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

— J. G. Ballard

“[...] a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.”

— Mary Balogh

“Into the soul is a full moon in rise. Pushing aside the veil of fears, you find the liquid pearl.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“This moment is a pearl; embellish it in your life.”

— Rajesh Walecha

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

— Confucius

“Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.”

— Truth Devour

“In the neighborhood of night, every tear is a pearl. Every soul in the dark has seen the moon, the hidden gem.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“In early cultures, it was thought pearls were born when a single raindrop fell from the heavens and became the heart of the oyster.…

— Vonnie Davis