„It is time, love, to break off that sombre rose,shut up the stars and bury the ash in the earth;and, in the rising of the light, wake with those who awokeor go on in the dream, reaching the other shore of the sea which has no other shore.“

— Pablo Neruda

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„What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.“
— Cesare Pavese
„Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.“
— Homér
„With which stars do they go on speaking, the rivers that never reach the sea?“
— Pablo Neruda
„Long have you timidly wadedHolding a plank by the shore,Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,To jump off in the midst of the sea,Rise again, nod to me, shout,And laughingly dash with your hair.“
— Walt Whitman
„It is time to be old,To take in sail: -The god of bounds,Who sets to seas a shore,Came to me in his fatal rounds,And said: 'No more!“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.“
— James Baldwin