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“I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.”

Knows Night Bits Dark Alive Sea Conditions Rivers Fishes Terror Tiny Boat Compare Lakes Fishing Civilized Molecules Predator Relish

Author:Paul G. Quinnett

“What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!”

Men Kind Poor Alive Sea Strange Rivers Ancient Fishes Smell Boat Lakes Fishing

Book:The Dramatic Works

Source: The Dramatic Works

“We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.”

Thinking Knows Today Realizing Know How Alive Sea Rivers Clean Fishes Boat Release Lakes Fishing Conservation Chill Live For Today Fisherman

Book:No Shortage of Good Days

Source: No Shortage of Good Days

“The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.”

Made Light Behinds Alive Sea Rocks Changed Materials Grew Golden Desert Sand Angle Time Of Day Sahara Apricots

Book:Force of circumstance

Source: Force of circumstance

“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America

“Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.”

Knows Alive Sea Love You Safe Ships Sail Harbors Stormy Stormy Seas Sea Of Love

Author:Dan Millman

“No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.”

Life Facts Reality Alive Sea Bird Plant Cells Live Life Poetic Realism Entity Insects I Am Alive

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.”

Dream Sun Alive Air Mystery Sea Sky Mountain Red Filled Glad Stealing Hills Flames Score Autumn Afternoon Rolling Fog Grapes Sparkle Wisps Drowsy I Am Alive Rolling Hills Afternoon Sun

Book:John Barleycorn

Source: John Barleycorn

“To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.”

“The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.”

Feels Alive Sea Loneliness Lonely

Book:Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead

Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead

“I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.”

Soul Alive Sea Land Infinite Filled Rose Enormous Your Soul Horizon Fragrance

Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez