“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge , book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

Dannie Abse (1923–2014) Welsh poet and physician

Poem In the theatre, in: Dannie Abse (1997) Welsh retrospective, p. 43

“It was the sea and I. And the sea was alone and I was alone. One of the two was missing.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Voces (1943)

“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: The Popular Girl

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The boat that took my love away
He sent again to me
To tell me that he would not sleep
Alone beneath the sea.”

Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer

"The Boat"
Selected Poems (1962)

“The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.”

Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge

"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Behold this sea, that sapphire sky!
Where nature does so much for man,
Shall man not set his standard high,
And hold some higher, holier plan?
Some loftier plan than ever planned
By outworn book of outworn land?Where God has done so much for man,
Shall man for God do aught at all?
The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.</p