„For what cause, youthful Sleep, kindest of gods, or what error have I deserved, alas to lack your boon? All cattle are mute and birds and beasts, and the nodding tree-tops feign weary slumbers, and the raging rivers abate their roar; the ruffling of the waves subsides, the sea is still, leaning against the shore.“

— Statius

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„Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.“
— Homér
„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
„Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.“
— Kurt Cobain
„I go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving out,and I say, oh, I am miserable,what shall—what should I do? And the sea saysin its lovely voice:Excuse me, I have work to do.“
— Mary Oliver
„I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.“
— Rick Riordan