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“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.”

Writing Sea Ought Bottom

Book:Mrs. Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”

Ifs Writing Book Water Sea Majesty Silent Spring Sea Water

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Writing Wells Sea Research Sitting Letters Asking Rewards Marine Pondering Turtles Stanley Sea Turtle

Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles