"Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away."

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear."

"Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.""

"He maketh the deep to boil like a pot."

"Past are three summers since she first beheld The ocean; all around the child await Some exclamation of amazement here: She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased, Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?"

"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue; * * * * * Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."

"The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore."

"Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea."

"And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace."

"Deep calleth unto deep."

"A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep; Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!"

"The always wind-obeying deep."

"Thou wert before the Continents, before The hollow heavens, which like another sea Encircles them and thee, but whence thou wert, And when thou wast created, is not known, Antiquity was young when thou wast old."

"We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?"

"Rari nantes in gurgite vasto."

"I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear And plain thou'lt hear Tales of ships."

"Rocked in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep."

"In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor."

"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean."

"Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony."

"I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher."

"There is something deeply impressive about the night sea as one experiences it from a small vessel far from land. When I stood on the afterdeck on those dark nights, on a tiny man-made island of wood and steel, dimly seeing the great shapes of waves that rolled about us, I think I was conscious as never before that ours is a water world, dominated by the immensity of the sea."

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself."

"Θάλαττα! θάλαττα! (Thalatta! Thalatta!)"

"Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal São lágrimas de Portugal!"

"Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea... down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins... when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes."

"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

"He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream."

"Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death; the seas bear only commerce."

"Enten ... shaped lagoons in the water of the sea. He let fish and birds together come into existence by the sea."

"On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea."

"We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead."

"It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound."

"God! he said quietly. Isn’t the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look."

"If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea."

"The precious stone set in the silver sea."

"The unsheltered sea heaves and heaves and blanches into foam. It sets me thinking of some tied-up monster straining at its bonds, in front of whose gaping jaws we build our homes on the shore and watch it lashing its tail. What immense strength, with waves swelling like the muscles of a giant! From the beginning of creation there has been this feud between land and water: the dry earth slowly and silently adding to its domain and spreading a broader and broader lap for its children; the ocean receding step by step, heaving and sobbing and beating its breast in despair. Remember the sea was once sole monarch, utterly free. Land rose from its womb, usurped its throne, and ever since the maddened old creature, with hoary crest of foam, wails and laments continually, like King Lear exposed to the fury of the elements."

"He who controls the sea controls everything."

"All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from seaweed to a sailor’s yarn, or a fish story. In this element the animal and vegetable kingdoms meet and are strangely mingled."

"Beware of the Sea! If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore, Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more."

"Behold, the sea itself."

"Under the sea, darling it's better. Down where it's wetter, take it from me."

"The mackerel-crowded seas."