"You know, the ocean’s the biggest damned snowflake ever? It rolls and swells a thousand shapes and colors, no two alike."

"I didn't believe what I'd been hearing; maybe this wind blowing in just came from the ocean."

"That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decora…"

"Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider."

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ru…"

"Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."

"The image of Eternity—the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zo…"

"And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; …"

"There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine."

"The always wind-obeying deep."