"It is poetically remarked, a thousand times has it been repeated, but history proves it without a metaphor by the exp…"

"Over the mountains, And over the waves, Over the fountains, And under the graves; Over the floods that are deepest, W…"

"'His nature is too noble for the world': He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder."

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull’d by the coil of his crystàlli…"

"At certain periods of the evening and the morning the blue of the Mediterranean surpasses all conception or descripti…"

"That centre was the Mediterranean; which was not so much a piece of water as a world. But it was a world with somethi…"

"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle…"

"When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could h…"

"The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know…"

"You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? [...] They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the re…"