“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

“There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

“Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”

James Joyce Ulysses

“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”

Alessandro Baricco book Ocean Sea

“The sea has no renewal, no forgetting,
no variety of death,
is silent with the silence of a single note.”

Basil Bunting (1900–1985) Poet

“It is the sea that whitens the roof.
The sea drifts through the winter air.
It is the sea that the north wind makes.
The sea is in the falling snow.
This gloom is the darkness of the sea.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

“The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!”

Bryan Procter (1787–1874) English poet