

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788