„Look, stranger, on this island nowThe leaping light for your delight discovers,Stand stable hereAnd silent be,That through the channels of the earMay wander like a riverThe swaying sound of the sea.“

— W. H. Auden

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„An island-farm — broad seas of cornStirred by the wandering breath of morn —The happy spot where I was born.“
— Lewis Carroll
„One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.“
— John Muir
„The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I’d rather die at sea, with one deep gulp of death,than die by inches on this desolate island here!“
— Homér
„Let's dance — put on your red shoes and dance the blues.Let's dance — to the song they're playin' on the radio.Let's sway — while colour lights up your face.Let's swa —, sway through the crowd to an empty space.“
— David Bowie