“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.” JoyNightWaterBehindsSunKnowingOur LivesDivineSorrowSummerGlassesFollowingShipsIslandsHorizonEnginesFar AwayRoutesDewJoys And SorrowsMagnifyingSummer NightsMagnifying Glass Author:Tomas Transtromer
“One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.” NightWaterSpaceSummerEdgesFlatsHorizonAugustRimsSummer NightsNew HorizonsMoon And StarsSun And Stars Author:Rachel Carson
“To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.” MenWaterDestinyDepthDisappearHorizonInfinityDeep Water Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'” PeopleWaterFireSorryShipsHorizonNavyChapsGentlemanly Author:William Golding
“... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.” IfsTryingMayEyeWaterCompanyWindLoversBlueImpactCurrentsCrowdsInsightMonstersPassingPassingsBoatSmokeBoredomDullHorizonWhere You AreTidesNow And ThenSubconsciousFanaticsDeckExpanseShippingQueuesUntrustworthy Author:Freya Stark
“Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.” WorldHopeWaterLossEmptyShipsIslandsHorizon Book:Oblique light Source: Oblique light