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“There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.”

“Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.”

Hard Shows Reality Chance Sleep Rooms Silence Sea Window Tall Infinity Candle Chill

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.”

Men Stars Cities Silence Known Sea Pauses Maids

Book:Songs and Satires

Source: Songs and Satires

“To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.”

Silence Sea Argument Breaths Silence Is Pearls Seekers

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.”

Seems Sound Results Silence Sea Feet Strange Mark Winter Ghost Snow Substance Atmosphere Sand Cracks Garments Evoke Whispering Disagreeable Spooky Winter Snow

Book:Bleak House

Source: Bleak House

“All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”

Sleep Silence Sea Wind Army Neptune

Author:Jean Racine

“There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.”

Water Half Silence Sea Hills Salt Babbling Sea Water

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”

Source: African Silences

“I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.”

Wish Silence Sea Skins Underwater Consoling

Author:Cristina Garcia

“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”

Silence Sea Waste Wave Gray

Author:William Sharp

“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 water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

Inspirational Truth Water Dark Silence Clear Sea Vessel Sparkling Deep Life

Book:Poems

Source: Poems