Poetry Quote by Lorine Niedecker

“If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Thy hand shall guide me…

— D.E. Stevenson

“I alone stretch out the heavens and tread on the waves of the sea. My way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and…

— Zhang Yun

“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few…

— Robert Macfarlane

“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil’s…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat…

— Anonymous

“The Windhover To Christ our Lord I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Set your wings upon the sea wind Set your eyes upon the stream Feel the billow of the updraft And believe in your dream…

— Kathryn Lasky

“Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World’s strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill…

— Kenneth Eade

“Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep, Its own appointed limits keep; Oh,…

— Nick Elliott

“By love that first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot, yet wert…

— William Shakespeare

“...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given thee the power of flight without wings.”

— The Koran