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Thus to sea god,
gift of sea wrack;
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hermonax.")
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Crash on crash of the sea,
straining to wreck men, sea-boards, continents,
raging against the world, furious.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Sea Heroes.")
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I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The North Ship.")
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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
(Hermann Broch (1886-1951), Austrian novelist. The Spell, foreword (1976, trans. 1987).)
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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Buck Mulligan, in Ulysses, ch. 1 of 1984 edition (1922).)
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Pour meted words
of sea-hawks and gulls
and sea-birds that cry
discords.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Wind Sleepers.")
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For she walks above earth,
along the sea-coast,
and across the salt trail
of the sea-drift.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hippolytus.")
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And now the winter sea:
Within her hollow rind
What sleek facility
Of sea-conceited scop
To plumb the nether mind!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Seasons of the Soul.")
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