“Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.”

“Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.”

“Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.”

“And you will suck the life out of meBury itI won't let you bury itI won't let you smother itI won't let you murder itAnd our time is running outAnd our time is running outYou can't push it undergroundYou can't stop it screaming outHow did it come to this?”

“Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.”

“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.”