Awful Quote by Albert Pinkham Ryder

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look…

— Dante Alighieri

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

— Dylan Thomas

There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog... coming around the cape she appeared in a shaft of…

— Mike Dooley

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

— Joë Bousquet

“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country…

— Joseph Conrad

I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand…

— Hilda Doolittle

“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their…

— Joseph Conrad

...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

— Joseph Conrad

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where…

— Walt Whitman

“What a thing this sleeplessness was! . . . If sleep, she thought, could be compared to a gentle lake in a dark place,…

— Patrick Hamilton

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson