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12 Beautiful Quotes About the Sea

The ocean has long been an inspiration for artists, poets and writers. Read on for 12 beautiful ocean quotes.

Rumi Ocean Quote

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

Roosevelt sea sailor quote

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sarah Kay ocean kissing quote

There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. – Sarah Kay

ocean quote robert wyland

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland

The cure for anything sea quote

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. –Isak Dinesen

For whatever we lose e.e. cummings quote

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea. –e.e. cummings

Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn’t realize exist. –Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. –Anais Nin

Walt Whitman Ocean Quote

The sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there? –Walt Whitman

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. – William James

Van Gogh Ocean Quote

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too. –Vincent van Gogh

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. – Jacques Cousteau

Ocean poems are available as a set in my Etsy Shop as a set or a calendar.

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