“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
The Rover, Part I, Act I, sc. ii (1677).
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Stuart Merrill (1863–1915) American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language
Sonore immensité des mers de l’Harmonie,
Où les rêves, vaisseaux pris d’un vaste frisson,
Voguent vers l’inconnu, leur voilure infinie
Claquant aven angoisse aux bourrasques du Son!
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Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry
Source: Sexing the Cherry
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On the Conservative leader Bonar Law's election slogan, "Tranquillity"; speech in the Stoll Picture Theatre, Kingsway (4 November 1922), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 34
Leader of the National Liberal Party
H.P. Lovecraft book The Call of Cthulhu
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
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Odysseus, Book X, line 892
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)