“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Solitude of Self (1892)
“Singing, "Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea."”
St. 7
The Forsaken Merman (1849)
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"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" (1852), stanza 1
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On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Colin Bingham, Men and Affairs: A Modern Miscellany (1967), p. 48.
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"Israfel", st. 8 (1831).
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As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.
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2007, 2008
“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)