I find the great thing in this world is not so much They come! Ships call! ...there was a grandeur in everything around Our voyage hade commenced, and at last There is, one knows not what sweet It's remarkable how quickly a good If one does not know to which port one There are some things you learn best in calm, A ship in the harbor is safe,
where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
- we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it - but we must sail,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The hooves of night, the horses of the sea
come on below their manes of darkness.
And forever the river runs.
Deep as the tides of time and memory,
deep as the tides of sleep, the river runs.
Thomas Wolf
which gave a solemnity to the scene, a silence
and solitariness which affected every part!
No human being but ourselves for miles; and no sound
heard but the pulsations of the great Pacific!
Richard Henry Dana
we were away, gliding through the clean water
past the reeds. Care was lifted from our shoulders,
for we were free from advice, pessimism,officialism, heat and hot air.
Adlard Coles
mystery about this sea, whose
gently awful stirrings seems to speak
of some hidden soul beneath...
Herman Melville
and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening
frustrations of shore living.
Ernest K. Gann
is sailing no wind is favorable.
Seneca
and some in storm.
Willa Cather
but that's not what ships are built for.
William Shedd
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