Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Related topics

desire echo gather listen shell speech lips

Related quotes

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. View quote
William Wordsworth
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. View quote
John Tukey
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. View quote
Kenneth Grahame