"The sea has this contradictory quality, that the……" — Alice Oswald
"The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined."
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