Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Quote by Jeffrey Ford

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“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

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the…

— Michael David Lukas

“The ocean was still and gray as a post-consumer touchscreen when she first spotted the island from the boat’s railing. A shade, a line…

— Alex Livingston

“It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we…

— Peter Cave

“Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white moonshine. [...] Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at the bottom…

— Anaïs Nin

“A graveyard of boats, cloaked in the shadows of their storm-beaten sails, rest like long-forgotten tombstones on the edges of the docks.”

— Lee Kelly

“I am made from the creaking beams and rusted nails of a lonely vessel on a lonely sea. I am covered and coated, dusted…

— Tyler Knott Gregson

“Strange how we had longed for the feel and smell of land when afloat and now longed for the touch of ship and spray…

— Robert Low