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“Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.”

Made Stories Shows Film Rooms Cutting Sea Coming Out Wrecks

Author:Roger Michell

“A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.”

Ifs May Clear Sea Return Depth Calm Pearls Wrecks

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!”

I Can Water Sea Atheism Danger Wind Positive Atheism Bitter Pleasant Fancy Shore Wrecks Bud Buffets Murmuring

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.”

Beauty Sea Rocks Casts Ships Wrecks Barren

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.”

Song Half Sea Ships Broke Captains Wrecks

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.”

Dream Eye Sleep Secret Behinds Sea Streets Bones Bags Dreamer Salt Bob Ashes Shells Feathers Juice Wrecks Whales Snowflake Moonshine Saliva

Book:Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Source: Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices