
„Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.“
— Amin Maalouf, book Leo Africanus
Source: Leo Africanus
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— Amin Maalouf, book Leo Africanus
Source: Leo Africanus
— Arundhati Roy Indian novelist, essayist 1961
— Jimi Hendrix American musician, singer and songwriter 1942 - 1970
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
— Joseph Conrad, book The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 35
Context: For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996
— Saddam Hussein Iraqi politician and President 1937 - 2006
On Iraqi Television, May 30, 2001; quoted in Robert Wistrich, Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger(2002), page 43.
— Eugène Boudin French painter 1824 - 1898
Quote in a letter, from Paris 14 June 1869, to family-friend Ferdinand Martin; as cited by Colin B. Bailey in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publisher, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 7
Boudin felt himself detained in the big city Paris and longed fort the beach
1850s - 1870s
— Emperor Gaozu of Han founding emperor of the Han Dynasty (256 BC - 195 BC) -256 - -195 BC
Translated by Burton Watson
大風歌 Song of the Great Wind
Original: (zh_Hant) 大風起兮雲飛揚,
威加海內兮歸故鄉,
安得猛士兮守四方。
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
— Chester W. Nimitz United States Navy fleet admiral 1885 - 1966
Employment of Naval Forces (1948)
— Tove Jansson Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914 - 2001
— Aryabhata Indian mathematician-astronomer 476 - 550
Bhaskara I, quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson "Aryabhata the Elder".
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
When I Was Older, Music Inspired by the Film Roma (9 January 2019)
Singles (2017 - )
— Augustus founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire -63 - 14 BC
Postquam bis classe victus naves perdidit, Aliquando ut vincat, ludit assidue aleam.
A popular rhyme at the time of the Sicilian war, mocking Augustus' habit of playing dice; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 70. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Variant: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
Source: 100 Selected Poems
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes