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“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

Firsts Earth Wish Sea Flower Thee Glorious Gems

Author:Charles Lamb

“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.”

Ifs Want Feels Language Wish Water Sea Perfection Lions Founders Monkeys Spiders Seals Slipping

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.”

May Left Wish Sea Land Mines Comfort Chains Thee Vain Ties Land And Sea

Author:William Wordsworth

“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”

Wells Wish Moral Sea Land Creatures Rivers Relation Dear Fishes Boat Code Dry Lakes Fishing Moral Code Dry Land

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”

Dream Wish Sleep Imagine Sea Rivers Fishes Bones Boat Awake Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Theocritus

“Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.”

Home Wish Sea My Friends Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Blank Outcast

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.”

Wish Sea Land Creatures Poetry Is Diaries

Author:Carl Sandburg

“The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.”

Want Giving May Doe Wish Taken Sea Ocean Seeds Ships Spit Whales

Book:The Eyes of the Amaryllis

Source: The Eyes of the Amaryllis

“I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.”

“I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.”

Wish Silence Sea Skins Underwater Consoling

Author:Cristina Garcia