“God gave the sea the danger and the abyss,
but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.”
Poem "Mar Português", Verses 11-12
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Original: Deus ao mar o perigo e o abismo deu,
Mas nele é que espelhou o céu.
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Fernando Pessoa288
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935Related quotes
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Ibid., p. 48
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
I Am a Child, from Last Time Around (1968)
Song lyrics, With Buffalo Springfield
“You are the grandson of the sky and sea.”
Tu caeli pelagique nepos.
Source: Achilleid, Book I, Line 869; Ulysses to Achilles.
“He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: When Cain was driven from Jehovah's land
He wandered eastward, seeking some far strand
Ruled by kind gods who asked no offerings
Save pure field-fruits, as aromatic things,
To feed the subtler sense of frames divine
That lived on fragrance for their food and [wine]]:
Wild joyous gods, who winked at faults and folly,
And could be pitiful and melancholy.
He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.
“The sea
For the sky
Confuses its white sheep
With pure angels
The sea
Shepherdess of the blue Infinite”
Charles Trenet (1913–2001) French singer-songwriter
"La Mer" (1943)