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“Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.”

Two Voice Sea Mountain

Author:William Wordsworth

“Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!”

Littles Voice Sea Land Cry Bird Fairs Wave Melancholy Rejoice Dwellers

Author:Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

“And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.”

Men Moments Inspiration Night Faith Asks Voice Walks Vision Boys Saws Heard Sea Cry Mouths Letters Western Woods Opening Thee Ireland

Author:Saint Patrick

“Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.”

Source: The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry

“"We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."”

“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”

“Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Wells Littles Shows Stars Voice Struggle Meditation Wonderful Sea Hero Calling Labor Storm Noble Noise Machinery Quietness Clamor

Author:James Vila Blake

“If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.”

Ifs Wells Earth Moving Voice Sea Deeds Noble Gleam Noble Deeds

Author:Pindar

“And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.”

Heart Spirit Lost Voice Sea Weak Smell Golden Rebel Rejoice Bent Lilac Lost Heart

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living”

Voice Sea Cry Meaningless

Author:Ted Hughes

“Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.”

Source: Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough

“Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.”

“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”

Moving Speak Voice Nature Tree Sea Clouds Wave Natural Environment Murmuring

Author:Paul Tillich

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”

Love Long Home Earth Voice Sea Fields Wall Lovers All Things Autumn Fence Hunters Hollow Sailor October Traveller Forsaken Hounds Hollowness

Book:Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

“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

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”

Humans Girl Voice Sea Red Brown Chamber Human Voice Seaweed

Author:T. S. Eliot

“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”

World Soul Body Speak Voice Loses Sea Solitude Embrace Awakening Wander Contemplation Spells Inward Vague Abyss Disturbing Chaotic Whispering Seductive Inviting Mazes Sensuous Tumult Murmuring

Author:Kate Chopin

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”

Years I Can Sometimes Moments Remember Night Sound Voice Sleep Sea Six Towns Corners Twelve

Author:Dylan Thomas