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“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

Next White Half Seeing Sea Middle Building Stones Sight Glasses Wave Heavy London Boat Dirty Score Concrete Flood Steel Bricks Spit Rowing Slate Foam Submerged Spires Asphalt

Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.”

House Water Boys Sea Land Minutes Rivers Stones Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Chocolate Cake Pool Worms Disturbing Hooked Trout Dredging

Author:Theodore Gordon

“Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.”

Ifs Wells Use Hands Form Sea Rivers Stones Fishes Surface Boat Lakes Fishing Pool Caps Blast Handy Trout Stunned Grenade Trout Fishing

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon them; let a boat be kept there.”

Firsts Water Dark Space Stones Green Boat Posts Vivid Castles Lap Slime Moats

Book:The Sorrow Dance: Poems

Source: The Sorrow Dance: Poems

“Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.”

Stills Goes On Stones Boat Bliss Shelter Drowning Sinking Tasting Bhakti

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you.”

Book Turns Water Behinds Feet Stones Disappear Boat Ice Pushing Melting Publication Behind You Stepping Stones Melting Ice

Author:Seamus Heaney

“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

Ifs Would Be Eye Lying Sea Stones Blessed Shoes Refuse Boat Throat Being Blessed

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.”

My Own Tree Wall Stones Boat Islands Forts Unreachable Stone Walls

Book:The Story of Us

Source: The Story of Us