Ancient Quote by James Russell Lowell

“I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am, like the…

— Sylvia Plath

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

— Stephen Harrigan

It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog…

— Immanuel Kant

“And, ah! his castle. The faery solitude of the place, with its turrets of mistly blue, its courtyard, its spiked gate, his castle that…

— Angela Carter

“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

“A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us - like rock and sunlight and…

— Edward Abbey "Desert Solitaire

“What exists beneath the sea? I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among…

— Kelly Easton

Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

— William Wordsworth

“For there is one thing that the designers of this sea-palace seem to have forgotten and seem to be a little ashamed of—and that…

— Filson Young

“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding diversity of…

— Thomas Mann

“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Blue, green, grey, white,…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro