Shore Quotes - Page 19

• The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sky, Rivers, Broken

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

  Carl Jung

  Want, Might, Matter

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• Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Sea, Perfect

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• Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Heart, Rushing

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.111, Conari Press

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• In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

  William Styron

  Sea, Quality, Vineyards

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.631, Random House

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• Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

  William Bligh

  Tents, Plant, Caution

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.22

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• I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

  Elvis Costello

  Travel, Doors, Mind

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• Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

  Phil Cousineau

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Grace

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Daughter, Ocean, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

  Khalil Gibran

  Peace, Pain, Islands

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• Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Reality, Men, Names

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• I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.

  Pauly D

  Falling In Love, Trying, Hook

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• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Blow, Numbers

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 368

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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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• ... 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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• 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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• Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are the only one who doesn't dress nicely. Everybody goes on vacations to a great place and you go to the Jersey shore. It's very hard to do these things without an organized mechanism, but it looks to me like there might be some organized mechanisms.

  Dan Ariely

  Vacation, Dresses, Looks

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the seep serene of the asters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance hear the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time. Wished for the moon, but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  Thomas Gray

  Distance, Sunset, Dark

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• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cities, Pigeons, Facts

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Brother, Children

  "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Facts

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Running, Dream, Littles

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• Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

  Joseph Conrad

  Fashion, Memories, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Airplane, Dark, Islands

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• It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

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