Mythology Quote by William Carlos Williams

think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he…

— Anne Sexton

“Last year a baby orca and its mother wandered too far upriver from the ocean; we saw the story in The Oregonian. They didn’t…

— Jennie Shortridge

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

— Alison Bechdel

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,…

— W. H. Auden

“I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.”

— Kellie Elmore

“I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”

— John Green

“if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore”

— Ray Bradbury

“So exquisitely slopped that he didn't know if he was on land or at sea.”

— Stephen King

“There is serenity and calm under the water's surface. You move easily and glimpse a world you have never seen before. You think of…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“I floated like driftwood in the ocean. I wasn’t worried about sharks, because my bathtub is much too shallow.”

— Jarod Kintz

“And, Mr. Knightley, forget my theory about Icarus. If you don't sail high, with the risk of crashing and burning, do you really live?…

— Katherine Reay

“They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.”

— Jack Kerouac