Waves Quotes

879 quotes by 687 authors

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. — Horace
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds… — Victor Hugo
The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray. — Thomas Hood
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men.… — Joseph Rodman Drake
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. — William Cowper
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. — Alexander Pope
As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion. — Heinrich Heine
Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles. — Aeschylus
Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a… — Jean Cocteau
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor… — Plutarch
The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. — Mooji
In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now… — Werner Heisenberg
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? — Ramakrishna
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. — Guy Finley
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly?… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. — Fitz-Greene Halleck
On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

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