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“There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.”

Men Kind Levels Powerful Vision Sea Rocks Approach Appearance Boundaries Landscape Staring Revelations Spite Most Powerful Scotland Scottish

Book:Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland

Source: Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland

“O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.”

Stills Night Sea Drink Rivers Fishes Boat Staring Dull Lakes Fishing Sunday Bites Wet Vary Day And Night Slippery Goggles

Book:The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee

Source: The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee

“I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.”

Water Sea Minutes Rivers Fishes Boat Staring Sat Lakes Fishing Shore Moonlight

Book:Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again

Source: Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again

“For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.”

Humans Eye Sea Speech Anger Staring Desperate Fierce Pale Tigers Trembling Human Strength Faltering

Book:The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.”

Humans Eye Faces Lying Loss Sea Sadness Intellectual Pity Staring Locked Frozen Disgrace Human Faces

Author:W. H. Auden

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.”

Action Wish Water Sea Adventure Standing Crosses Vain Staring Indulge Indulge In

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India