"A successful song comes to sing itself inside……" — Kevin Brockmeier

"A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place."

— Kevin Brockmeier

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Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore. — Drake
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the… — Ferdinand Magellan
[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this… — P.J. O'Rourke
Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must… — Unknown Author
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to… — Mikhail Lermontov
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. — Poul Anderson
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. — Theodore Sturgeon
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain.… — Loren Eiseley
To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should… — Fatos Nano

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