Quote by James Joyce

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a…

— Anonymous

“Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh…

— Herman Melville

“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually…

— Lawrence Durrell

“THE ARRIVAL Like a tide it comes in, wave after wave of foliage and fruit, the nurtured and the wild, out of the light…

— Wendell Berry

“...the night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer. All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in the valley-seams…

— Margo Lanagan

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic Glass, Its…

— Alexander Pope

“As surely as the sunset in my latest November shall translate me to the ethereal world, and remind me of the ruddy morning of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far,…

— Joseph Conrad

“WHERE ONCE THE WATERS ON YOUR FACE Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead…

— Dylan Thomas

“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“At dawn, I sail far from every shore to drain my cup in the sea, barring a bead I keep, tucked close like wings.…

— Saif Sidari

“Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite?…

— Alan Moore