“Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.”
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) British poet and critic
The Devil's Progress (1849)
“Every little glimmering pond
Claims the mighty shores beyond;
Shores no seaman ever hailed,
Seas no ship has ever sailed.”
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
Context: p>Carol, every violet has
Heaven for a looking-glass!Every little valley lies
Under many-clouded skies;
Every little cottage stands
Girt about with boundless lands;
Every little glimmering pond
Claims the mighty shores beyond;
Shores no seaman ever hailed,
Seas no ship has ever sailed.All the shores when day is done
Fade into the setting sun,
So the story tries to teach
More than can be told in speech.</p
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“The shore that has no shore beyond.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
Context: p>We have come by curious ways
To the Light that holds the days;
We have sought in haunts of fear
For that all-enfolding sphere:
And lo! it was not far, but near.We have found, O foolish-fond,
The shore that has no shore beyond.Deep in every heart it lies
With its untranscended skies;
For what heaven should bend above
Hearts that own the heaven of love?</p
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Hugging the Shore, foreword (1983)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore
Than ever were lost at sea.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) American poet
With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Terminus http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20600&c=323 <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Balthazar, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)