Quote by Malcolm C. Lyons

“how on still nights, when there is no breeze stirring the waves, the Nautilus sails on the blue waters of the Indian Ocean in…

— Helen Keller

“the hearts of all mystic lovers.” Likewise when Ibn Arabi, the distinguished philosopher, writer, and mystic, saw the young Rumi walking behind his father…

— Elif Shafak

“As al-Biruni (Alberuni), the great Islamic scholar of the eleventh century, would put it, ‘the Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs,…

— John Keay

“My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron composition by…

— Robert Lowell

“how people’s faces turned slightly upward when they stared at the sea, as if they were straining to see a trace of God or…

— Thrity Umrigar

“A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast. Cabral delivered…

— Amitav Ghosh

“Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the…

— Yukio Mishima

“He even traipsed to a temple with Ram Ram Basu to debate two Brahmins in front of about 200 natives. His mission never seemed…

— Sam Wellman

“deeper mysteries Than all the tales of the sea.”

— Kenyatta García

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“THE STILT FISHERMEN OF KATHALUWA”

— Maxine Beneba Clarke

“Thehorizonallaroundmebreathedoutperfumeannouncingherarrival asthefragranceprecedesafiower. IBNSAFRAL-MARINI,POETOFANDALUSIA”

— IBN SAFR AL-MARINI POET OF ANDALUSIA