Waves · Skopia

Quotes

5

Science fiction

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

1985

★ 6.9

Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean.

Dover Beach · 1867

★ 5.2

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples · 1824

★ 3.6

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 2.2

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Art

1

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

1832★ 9.3