Caribbean Quote by Capt. John Phillips circa 1723

“The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring…

— Bram Stoker

“The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery…

— Robert Browning

“The sky strikes the sea in the distance with daggers of lightning, plunging deep and fast and hard. The sea roils, taking the pain,…

— Jessica S. Olson

“Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.”

— Li-Young Lee

“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and again and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man’s great striving.]3”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.”

— Rosie Thomas

“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee’s trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks.…

— Suzanne Collins

“The sea stretched to the edge of the sky, overwhelming, and liberating, and soothing all at once.”

— Christie Anderson

“As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and…

— Edgar Allan Poe