I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.
James Harvey KiddTag: love star water fish sea quote destiny searching etc sign james out a about kidd
-Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos?
-Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto.
-Pero, ¿adónde vais?
-Al mar
Tag: sea
Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I will. I set no appointments. I guard no borders. What landbound king has the freedom of a ship's captain? The Sea of Brass provides. When I need haste, it gives me winds. When I need gold, it gives me galleons." Thieves prosper, thought Locke. The rich remember. He made his decision, and gripped the rail to avoid shaking.
"Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps," said Zamira. "But nobody can draw lines around my ship. If they try, all I need to do to slip away is set more sail.
Tidal waves surge forward,
And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.
(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)
Tag: nature sea haiku ocean new
And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank
Joseph ConradTag: sea
I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.
Simon Van BooyTag: sea ocean end-of-the-world
Did you know in the sea you can find a fish called, SWEETLIPS?"
Ted and Raymond's Sea Adventure
Tag: fish sea adventures ted-and-raymond
I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me
Tag: poetry poem sea hide sexual-abuse survivor homeless island runaway tide child-rape
one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.
Herman MelvilleTag: rage hate madness sea anger moby-dick whale sailors arkansas ahab
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…
Alexander the GreatTag: purpose justice peace memory sea culture greece dionysus conquest india diogenes barbarian hercules civilize hellenic macedonia perseus
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