Candid Quote by Sidney Lanier

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

— William Shakespeare

Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea…

— Khalil Gibran

“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and again and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“On one side, across the channel, stretched the silvery sand shore of the bar; on the other extended a long, curving beach of red…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Like a tide-race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates…

— j.k. huysmans

“Open to them your hand to the shore, watch them walk into the sea. Press upon them all they need, see them yearn for…

— Steven Erikson

“Amongst those who go to sea there are the navigators who discover new worlds, adding continents to the earth and stars to the heavens:…

— Gustave Flaubert

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets…

— Marsilio Ficino

“The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to the shore…

— Leo Tolstoy

“This time I keep to the long shadows where the darkness gathers thickest, picking my way across the silvery damp grass until I reach…

— Cat Hellisen

“they ask for water we give them sea they ask for bread we give them sea they ask for life we give them only…

— M. Nourbese Philip

“To your simple existence, do not boast; merely to breathe or move or think is not to live. The shore of the sea is…

— Craig Froman