“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.” RealMomentsHandsFacesFormPassionGrowsChangePerfectSeaIntellectualInsightMoodHillsAttractiveExcitementToneThat Moment Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.” WayPlayEyePassionImaginationMemoriesSeaWorshipSightWillingnessEroticCaressVoluptuous Book:A Natural History of Love Source: A Natural History of Love
“A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.” PassionSeaTragedyWaveHollowGreat Tragedy Author:Austin O'Malley
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.” HumansPassionLiteratureSeaSand Author:Nikolai Gogol
“I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.” FeelsPassionSportsWatchesGreaterSeaOughtRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingEthicalCeremonyFrontiersAnglingReverberation Author:Thomas McGuane
“This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.” MayDesirePassionSeaObjectsLoversCertaintyAbsentFickleDubiousObjects Of Desire Author:Tobsha Learner
“It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.” FactsPassionFoundSeaProjectsVolunteerCrewShepherds Author:Paul Watson
“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.” PeopleMenLoveGivingWholeRunningPassionLostWaterLove IsAttentionPlansTroubleTreeSeaAdviceHe ManLoversIntellectualRemainsOilAshamedShadeRunning AwayDrowningReposeShowing OffLove Is LikeLove PassionGiving AdviceGetting LostMuskAlways AloneRomantic Passion Book:Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.” MenFirstsHumansPassionSeaMastersTerribleNobleSandObedient Author:Nikolai Gogol
“Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.” WorldPhilosophyBeautifulSpiritCertainPassionLiteratureBitsSidesHoursPleasureTalkingSeaBalanceWalkingTasteTablesWineLibraryTheatreParisRebellionLatinBottlesMuseumsHeritageStubbornEleganceIllustrationDelicacyRigorHumanisticInsolenceBottles Of WineSaying NothingProvenceNordic Author:Clemence Poesy
“My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.” PeopleEyePassionLanguageSeaOceanPhotographyUniversalConvinceFragileFiniteMy PassionUniversal Language Author:David Doubilet
“I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.” IfsHas BeensSongPassionWrittenHappenedSeaConcernTraditionAttributesCommentaryExodusYams Author:Elie Wiesel