Great saying by great authors Quote by Yvor Winters

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

— Yvor Winters

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

— Homer

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

— Kim Edwards

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

— George Herbert

“At long last the horizon appears free to us again, even if it should not be bright; at long last our ships may venture…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a mystical quality to the place where sea meets land, the clashing of two very different worlds. Yet continuity remains between them.…

— F.G. Capitanio

The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.

— Wallace Stevens

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never…

— Christopher Columbus

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

— Andre Gide

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary…

— William Shakespeare