“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“A rude and boisterous captain of the sea.”
Act iv, scene 1.
Douglas (first performed 1756)
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“And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth
Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
"Hymn".
Context: When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean
And billows wild contend with angry roar,
'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion
That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore.
Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth
And silver waves chime ever peacefully,
And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth
Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
“Just as a vessel caught by the Pleiads on the foaming deep and kept safe only by its anxious helmsman’s care cleaves unharmed the sea that contending winds make boisterous, so Pollux warily watches the blows.”
Spumanti qualis in alto
Pliade capta ratis, trepidi quam sola magistri
cura tenet, rapidum ventis certantibus aequor
intemerata secat, Pollux sic providus ictus
servat.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 268–272
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Flemish painter
In a letter to Pierre Dupuy, 7 June 1627; as quoted by Simon Schrama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 244
1625 - 1640
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"The Fall" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Song lyrics, Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)
