„Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?“

— Ernest Hemingway

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„Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.“
— Robert Frost
„So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.“
— Virginia Woolf