„And from that time on I bathed in the PoemOf the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk,Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam,A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.“

— Arthur Rimbaud

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„I have bathed in the PoemOf the Sea…Devouring the green azures.“
— Arthur Rimbaud
„If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.“
— Margaret Atwood
„I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.“
— Virginia Woolf