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It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective…

— Edward Hirsch

The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to…

— Christopher Columbus

“Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could…

— Jules Verne

“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”

— Alex St. Clair

“Although most earlier versions of pastoral had been set in never-never lands, and although The Tempest contains only one allusion to the actual New…

— Leo Marx

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

“Life's an Unceartian Voyage”

— William Shakespeare

“He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and…

— E.L. Konigsburg

“She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“the now-famous Cunards, who established their shipping business during the war and made their first transatlantic passenger voyage in 1813.”

— Troy Bickham

Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to…

— Warren MacKenzie