“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.” MotherNamesSeaLandNew YorkFameConquerGreekFlamesGiantsSunsetGatesYearningLightningLimbsExileWretchedTorchesBrazenStatue Of LibertyColossus Author:Emma Lazarus
“Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.” MenLongEyeSongSeaLove YouHairCallingKissingMadShiningFlamesShoreLove YourselfNestsKiss MeSparrowsFoamWild Things Author:Jewel
“It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?” IfsThinkingShouldEarthTurnsWalksSeaFeetGlassesFlamesWhat IfBellyScarletSeething Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.” LightEyeDarkQualitySeaDemandDisappearFlamesCentreContradictoryBrightnessUndefined Author:Alice Oswald
“I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!” WhiteForgetSeaSorrowBirdLongingRoseImmortalityBelovedFlamesIslandsShoreLiliesFoamWhite Birds Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.” HeartMayDiesStarsWhiteSeaSadnessSkyLowsBirdBlueLongingBelovedFlamesTwilightHungTireDissatisfactionFoamRimsMeteorsWhite Birds Book:Early Poems Source: Early Poems
“There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.” TogetherFireSeaColorGreenShiningUnionsIncrediblesOilBrilliantPainterBurningFlamesJewelsPurpleRivalsJewelrySplendorGemsRubiesEmeraldsOpalAmethystJewelry Boxes Author:Pliny the Elder
“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.” DreamSunAliveAirMysterySeaSkyMountainRedFilledGladStealingHillsFlamesScoreAutumnAfternoonRollingFogGrapesSparkleWispsDrowsyI Am AliveRolling HillsAfternoon Sun Book:John Barleycorn Source: John Barleycorn
“All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.” LoveHumansWholeGodEarthHeavenSpaceLove IsSeaTypeInfiniteNotesGod LoveFlamesRealmsBroadsSparksHarmoniousHuman Love Author:Cormac McCarthy
“Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God.” HelpingSeaBlessingBedProtectMouthsRiversPerfectionSickHealKingdomsFlamesManifestationDryHeavenlyLionsCommandmentsKingdom Of GodFieryDroughtCorridorsExaltationUnwaveringIndomitableDelugeUndauntedUnwavering Faith Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.” PeopleWorldSeaTinyFlames Author:Eduardo Galeano
“Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.” MenMadeSoulSeemsWould BeJobsJoySinAnswersSeaCryDivineCommunicationBirthAll ThingsLonelyFellowsFlamesSicknessCracksTidesCommunionWormsDivine LoveFellow ManRoaring Book:Redeployment Source: Redeployment
“The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?” IfsWorldHumansMadeMomentsDesireLove IsFireSeaPureGainsFortuneCarefulBitterBoatBuddhistBurningHuman LifeFlamesRealmsTaoismShoreBe CarefulFierceGreedyPitsDrowningCalamityGood FortuneVaryPonds Author:Zicheng Hong