“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.” LittlesHoursPathSeaSweetMetsLonelyCloudsSpeedShipsMistConversesFoamLonely Path Author:Alexander Smith
“We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.” EarthSeaMountainBuiltRootsTownsTrainRosePlantPassingPassingsPermanentBurnedMistTremblingPrehistoric Book:Boy's Life Source: Boy's Life
“For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!” ClearSeaFinalsCraftsSailSailingMistHarborsAnon Author:John Kendrick Bangs
“Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.” LongIdeasFactsFormGrowsRichSeaStrangePressesFishesFleshAbstractFeathersMistRibsEpitome Author:Philip Jose Farmer
“Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.” WaterLossSeaDespairRainDisasterScalesWeatherMistLarge Scale Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut
“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.” PeopleMindStoriesSeaOceanGhostShoreIrelandFogMistEerieCornwall Author:Dodie Smith
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.” TruthLyingPleasureSeaAdventureHonorBattleStandingWindowErrorsShipsWanderShoreCastlesMistTempest Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.” AirBloodSeaComplicatedWarmSouthernThickRichnessMist Book:Colony Source: Colony