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“Stand stable here and silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sounds of the sea.”
– W. H Auden, On This Island
“‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘to talk of many things:
of shoes- of ships- and sealing wax-
of cabbages- and kings-
and why the sea is boiling hot-
and whether pigs have wings.’”
– Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, ch. 5
“When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ the sea, that you ever do
Nothing but that; move still, still so
And own no other function.”
– Shakespeare, Winters Tale
“I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson Song of Travel, XI
“. . . There is rapture on the lonely shore . . .
by the deep sea and music in its roar.”
– Lord Byron Beppo st. 178
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“The whirlpool of Charybdis, where the sea forever spouted and roared and the furious waves mounting up touched the very sky.”
– Edith Hamilton, Mythology
“An Aged boatman named Charon Ferries the souls of the
dead across the [river Styx] to the farther bank where stands the
adamantine gate of Tartarus. . . Charon will receive into his
boat only the souls of those upon whose lips the passage money
was placed when they died and who were duly buried.”
– Edith Hamilton, Mythology
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance;
. . . poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the music.”
– Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
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“Never did I hear. . .
so musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
–Shakespeare, Midsummer Nights Dream
“I want to be free without being foolish.”
– John Cage, I have nothing to say and I am Saying It
“This restlessness is a trait of the sea almost
as fundamental as its wetness.”
– Leonard Engel, The Sea, ch. 4
“A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.”
– Fracis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
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Wave Four: nAM
06:50
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“The real reason I dance is because I want to explode.”
– Bill Evens
“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears:
Yet, slower, yet; O faintly gentle springs;
List the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.”
– Sir William Jones, Cynthia Revels, I.i
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“Nothing to say now
Let the words be yours
I’m done with mine”
– John Barlow, Cassidy
“In a solitude of the sea. . . cold currents
thrid and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.”
– Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
“She hadna sail’d a league, a league,
a league but barely three,
Till grim, grim grew his countenance
and gurly grew the sea.”
The Dæmon Lover
“I’d love to go drowning
and to stay, and to stay
But the ocean doesn’t want me today. . .
A rip tide is raging
And the life guard is away
But the ocean doesn’t want me today
The ocean doesn’t want me today."
– Tom Waits, The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me
“But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear;
the rest may reason and welcome; ‘tis we musicians know.”
– Robert Browning, Abt Vogler xi
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“A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned
...but we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drowned now and again.”
– John Millington Synge, The Aran Islands, pt. II
“Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis,
E terra Magnum alterius spectare laborem;”
[Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the
waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land
on the great efforts of someone else]
– Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, ii.1
“The sea will rise . . .
please stand by the shore . . .
I will be . . .
I will be. . . .
there once more . . .”
– Eddie Vedder, Oceans
“O Body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
how can we know the dancer from the dance.”
– W. B. Yeats, Among School Children VIII
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