“The vastest point, the center, the infinity — Faëry, where the gigantic heroes ride across endless landscapes and sail sea upon sea and there is no end to possibility — that circle is so tiny it has no doors at all.”

— John Crowley

Bk. 6, Ch. 4
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)

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John Crowley 27

American writer 1942

Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure, Lines 547–549 (tr. R. C. Seaton)

“The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 35 (p. 891; closing words)

“Which serves for cynosure
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.”

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer

First Week, Seventh Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

“The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman:
the endless sea is Portuguese.”

Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem

Poem "Padrão", Versos 11-12
Message
Original: O mar com fim será grego ou romano:
O mar sem fim é português.

“Sonorous immensity of the seas of Harmony
Where dreams like ships that shake in the profound,
Voyage to the unknown, their sails bent to infinity,
Billowing with anguish in the gusts of Sound.”

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!
"Pendant qu’elle chantait", from Les gammes, translated by Catherine Perry and Henry Weinfield in The White Tomb: Selected Writing, Talisman House, 1999.