Beach Quote by James Arthur

“once said that the “Language Poets” take a private space on the public beach. My response to this is that it takes a private…

— Charles Bernstein

“The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to…

— Pat Conroy

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will…

— Rachel Carson

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could…

— Rachel Carson

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the…

— Gene Tierney

In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and…

— Anonymous

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

— Joshua Slocum