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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Art Made Body Reality Eye Spirit Water Sea Movement Shapes Rivers Patterns Fishes Speed Scales Boat Lakes Fishing Flash Floating Fins

Author:Constantin Brancusi

“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?”

Ifs Knows Culture Voice Heard Sea Cry Serious Arms Laughter Criticism Prison Prepared Complaining Backgrounds Tone What If Gates Discourse Anguish Amusement Antidote Giggle Drained

Author:Neil Postman

“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”

Ifs Men Needs Heart Left Stars Realizing Sea Land Ambition Miracle Horse Finals Tales Fairy Accomplished Fairy Tale True Happiness

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.”

Ifs Needs Hands Together Certain Dark Sea Lucky Summer Seasons Absolutes Seven Eight Swim Exhaustion Lucky You Hands Together

Book:Sleeping in Flame

Source: Sleeping in Flame

“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Earth Faces Sea Wind Limits Mad Threat Misery Blow Rage Woe Sigh Weeping

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

Ifs Would Be Eye Lying Sea Stones Blessed Shoes Refuse Boat Throat Being Blessed

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.”

Ifs Feels Earth Sea Tears

Author:Pat Conroy

“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”

Ifs Looks Girl Enjoy Vision Millions Sea Shadow Dollars Silver Diamond Rope Sailor Loveliness Green Gables

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables