The sea--this truth must be confessed--has no generosity. No display of manly qualities--courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulne...ss--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the su...rface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are a...ll sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, there are people, all right, settled in the sea; It is as populous as Maine today,... But no one who will give you the time of day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love still has something of the Sea, From whence his Mother rose;... No time his Slaves from Doubt can free, Nor give their Thoughts repose:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For she has made me the laily worm That lies at the fit o' the tree,... An' my sister Masery she's made The machrel of the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard... The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »