I need a great poem or quote.. something literary having to do with the ocean, sea, etc..?

Question

I'm getting a tattoo on my foot covered with a starfish and perhaps other oceanic things like an anchor or conch shell.. I haven't put that much together yet. I was thinking also an oceanic/seascape quote or verse .. something fairly short and sweet.. to put with it. Any suggestions would be amazing!

Answer 1

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keywor... try their website  it has very interesting quotes   im not sure how long you want yours.. but good luck

  

                                   hope it helps

                                          katy

Answer 2

I know a whole bunch:

all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Give me the splended silent sun.

In every grain of sand there is the story of the earth

My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean

Sandy Toes, and Salty Kisses

The Tide always Turns

Never a ship sails out of the bay

But carries my heart as a stowaway.

Why do we love the sea?  It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think

Answer 3

"As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean"

It's from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

It's a very long poem but it's all about a sailor and his experience discovering the beauty of nature.

Here is the poem in full if you want to look for a line that you particularly like:

http://www.online-literature.com/colerid...

Answer 4

The silence grows

All day

I listen to , but the waves

(free translation of a 15th century Japanse poem

Answer 5

"My love stands on golden sands"

from the song beyond the see

Answer 6

Read Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.

There are lots of great quotes regarding the ocean.