Beneath the surface Quote by Ellen Meloy

“As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the…

— Lars Iyer

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad…

— Pliny the Elder

[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in…

— Loren Eiseley

“…I suddenly discerned at my feet, crouching among the rocks for protection against the heat, the marine goddesses for whom Elstir had lain in…

— Marcel Proust

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds…

— Daphne du Maurier

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

“Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

— Nikki Giovanni

A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard…

— Alexander Grothendieck

“It was one of those warm, still, almost tropical nights, so rarely seen on the northern waters, when a profound calm reigns in the…

— George Kennan

“The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth…

— Virginia Woolf

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

— William Shakespeare