Shore Quotes - Page 15

• You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.

  William P. Young

  Beautiful, Ocean, Rivers

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• ... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

  Mary Oliver

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Ornaments, Dangerous

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

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• If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Islands, America, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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• In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

  Steven Tyler

  Sight, Order, Sides

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• The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ocean, Dark, Clouds

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

  Peter Jackson

  Heart, Emotional, Two

  "The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring The Complete Recordings Coming in November" by Brian B., movieweb.com. September 16, 2005.

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• I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Father, Thinking, Sprung Up

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• Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shells.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Children, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

  Michael Stipe

  Beach, Ocean, Swimming

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• A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rivers, Crosses, Discarded

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• It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

  Joe Biden

  Religious, Heart, Race

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• The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers.

  Demetri Martin

  Sports, Book, Kids

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• Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Wise, Bed Of Roses, Promise

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.74, Aum Publications

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• A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

  Albert Einstein

  Safe, Ships, Built

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• The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.

  John Keats

  Silly, Men, Sea

  Letter to James Hessey, October 9, 1818.

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• The working people are bound to their native shores.

  Benito Mussolini

  Shoes, People, Native

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• I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, War, Special

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• The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

  Alexander Smith

  Ocean, Sea, White

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• When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

  John Keble

  Success, Past, Lasts

  John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.29

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• O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Sweet, Wind, Ebb And Flow

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• Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

  Robert Hayden

  Dance, Voice, Spokes

  Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.153, University of Michigan Press

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• Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Age, Aging

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.25, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Daughter, Dark, Moon

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Song, Love You, Eye

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