Variant: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Source: The Call of Cthulhu
“It happened once, some men of Italy
Midst the Greek Islands went a sea-roving,
And much good fortune had they on the sea”
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Context: It happened once, some men of Italy
Midst the Greek Islands went a sea-roving,
And much good fortune had they on the sea:
Of many a man they had the ransoming,
And many a chain they gat and goodly thing;
And midst their voyage to an isle they came,
Whereof my story keepeth not the name.
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author, designer, and craftsman 1834–1896Related quotes
“At sea your men will be as far inferior to Greeks as women are to men.”
By Artemisa, the best persian warrior in Salamina, a very courageous woman. A superbe irony!
Book 8, Ch. 68.
The Histories
“The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman:
the endless sea is Portuguese.”
Fernando Pessoa
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Poem "Padrão", Versos 11-12
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Original: O mar com fim será grego ou romano:
O mar sem fim é português.
Edward Lear
(1812–1888) British artist, illustrator, author and poet
" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).
“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”
Source: Gift from the Sea