Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: The Changeling Sea
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
6 November 2014, Twitter
Speaking & Features
Richard Lovelace (1617–1658) English writer and poet
To Lucasta: Going Beyond the Seas, st. 3.
Lucasta (1649)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"O Russet Witch!"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool.
"O Russet Witch!"
But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.