“Like the surface of the sea was the mirror of Tuzun Thune; hard as the sea in the sun's slanting beams, in the darkness of the stars, where no eye can pierce her deeps; vast and mystic as the sea when the sun smites her in such way that the watcher's breath is caught at the glimpse of tremendous abysses. So was the mirror in which Kull gazed.”
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" (1929)
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“Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.”
Source: Nausea
“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.
“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”
Quote of Friedrich, shortly after his return in 1798; as quoted in C. D. Friedrich by H.W. Grohn; Kindlers Malerei Lexicon, Zurich, 1965, II p. 46; as cited & transl. by Linda Siegel in Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism, Boston Branden Press Publishers, 1978, p. 17
Friedrich's quote is referring to the typical landscape and atmosphere of Denmark, he intensively experienced for four years. In 1798 Friedrich left Copenhagen and returned to Germany, to Dresden
1794 - 1840
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”