„You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.“

„Watching storms
Start to form
Over America.
Can't do anything.
Just watch them swing
With the wind
Out to sea.“

—  Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave

„Far out at sea,—the sun was high,
While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,
We saw a snow-white butterfly
Dancing before the fitful gale,
Far out at sea.“

—  Richard Henry Horne English poet and critic 1802 - 1884

Genius; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 88.

„All the diamonds in this world
That mean anything to me
Are conjured up
by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
I ran aground in a harbor town
Lost the taste for being free
Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
To carry me to sea…“

—  Bruce Cockburn Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter 1945

All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
Salt, Sun and Time (1974)

„Far the horizon
Hove to the wind;
We're sailing the sea
To the Edge of the World.“

—  Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)

„The moonlight rolls down like a river,
The silence streams out like a sea;
And far where the eastern winds quiver,
My farewell goes floating to thee.“

—  Voltairine de Cleyre American anarchist writer and feminist 1866 - 1912

And Thou Too (1888)

„A grand old Neptune in the prow,
Gray-hair'd, and white with touch of time,
Yet strong as in his middle prime;
A grizzled king, I see him now,
With beard as blown by wind of seas,
And wild and white as white sea-storm,
Stand up, turn suddenly, look back
Along the low boat's wrinkled track,
Then fold his mantle round a form
Broad-built as any Hercules,
And so sit silently.“

—  Joaquin Miller American judge 1837 - 1913

III, p. 22.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

„He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.“

—  James Joyce, kniha A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Zdroj: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

„The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,
And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.“

—  Mary Howitt English poet, and author 1799 - 1888

The Sea-Fowler, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea,
Though by the wind made restless as the wind,
By billows fretted and by rocks confined,
So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.“

—  Francis William Bourdillon British poet 1852 - 1921

"Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.

„Pleasant, the eagle on the shore of the sea when it flows;
Also pleasant, sea-gulls playing.
Pleasant, a horse with gold-enamelled trappings;
Also pleasant to be honest in a breach.“

—  Taliesin Welsh bard 534 - 599

„A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.“

—  Samuel Lover Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter 1797 - 1868

The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.“

—  Jon Krakauer, kniha Into the Wild

Zdroj: Into the Wild

„The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.“

—  Robert E. Howard American author 1906 - 1936

"The Road of Azrael" (1976)

„Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.“

—  Federico García Lorca Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898 - 1936

Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
" Romance Sonámbulo http://www.poesia-inter.net/index203.htm" from Primer Romancero Gitano (1928)

„If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.“

—  Stephen Chbosky, kniha The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Zdroj: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

„The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull;
They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull.“

—  Nathalia Crane American writer 1913 - 1998

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928), The Wings of Lead
Kontext: The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull;
They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull.It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red:
"You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?

„If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.“

—  Madeleine L'Engle, kniha A Wrinkle in Time

Zdroj: A Wrinkle in Time

„She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.“

—  Virginia Woolf, kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

„Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.“

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, kniha The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Zdroj: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner