Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

“A radio made of seawater Will have mermaids for music: Who when me they will kiss All my senses will greet.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

“Teach me to hear mermaids singing,”

— John Donne

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”

— Toby R. Beeny

“There are seven mermaid princesses and seven pearls. The reason I sing is to convey my love. The reason the pearl sparkels is to…

— Pink Hanamori

“I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do…

— T.S Eliot

“We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat…

— Anonymous

“Sirens are real, mermaids are not.”

— Amanda Hocking

I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew…

— William Shakespeare

“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach…

— Carolyn Turgeon

“Mermaids don't drown.”

— Suzanne Palmieri

“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from…

— Matthew Arnold

“In the waters there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than any substance else that is in this Earth;…

— J.R.R. Tolkien