Sea Shell – Quotes

There must be something

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you should take

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For whatever we lose

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea. e. e. cummings

When I was 11

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done … Read more

The flood subsides, and

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely. D. H. Lawrence

A baby’s feet, like

A baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel’s lips to kiss, we think, A baby’s feet. Algernon Charles Swinburne

I do not know

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

The great ocean of

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton