Aghast Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a…

— Helge Ingstad

“The NELLIE, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the…

— Joseph Conrad

“Folklore tells of sea maidens who tamed the raging ocean to allow their sailors safe passage. But for those sailors they had loved and…

— Kerry Lonsdale

This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises…

— Alice Munro

The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the…

— John Burroughs

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf

“Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the…

— Yukio Mishima

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in…

— Homer

“Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened,…

— James Joyce

“It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as…

— Ishmael

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

— Anonymous

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see…

— Augustus William Hare