Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20
“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”
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
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Alfred Noyes
(1880–1958) English poet
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
Context: p>Carol, every violet has
Heaven for a looking-glass!Every little valley lies
Under many-clouded skies;
Every little cottage stands
Girt about with boundless lands;
Every little glimmering pond
Claims the mighty shores beyond;
Shores no seaman ever hailed,
Seas no ship has ever sailed.All the shores when day is done
Fade into the setting sun,
So the story tries to teach
More than can be told in speech.</p
X, 23
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Let this always be plain to thee, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same with all things on the top of a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou chooses to be. For thou wilt find just what Plato says, Dwelling within the walls of the city as in a shepherd's fold on a mountain.
“I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.”
Bryan Procter
(1787–1874) English poet
The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
William Quan Judge
(1851–1896) American occult writer
The Ocean of Theosophy by William Q. Judge (1893), Chapter 1, Theosophy and the Masters
Adolf Eichmann
(1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer
Gideon Hausner as quoted in The New York Times (27 June 1961).
“Then the shouting of the sailors, which had long been rising from the open sea, filled all the shore with its sound; and, when the rowers all together brought the oars back sharply to their breasts, the sea foamed under the stroke of a hundred blades.”
At patulo surgens iam dudum ex aequore late
nauticus implebat resonantia litora clamor,
et simul adductis percussa ad pectora tonsis
centeno fractus spumabat verbere pontus.
Book XI, lines 487–490
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