„I arrived at length at Cairo, mother of cities and seat of Pharaoh the tyrant, mistress of broad regions and fruitful lands, boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendour, the meeting-place of comer and goer, the halting-place of feeble and mighty, whose throngs surge as the waves of the sea, and can scarce be contained in her for all her size and capacity.“

„Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.“

—  Patricia A. McKillip, kniha The Changeling Sea

Zdroj: The Changeling Sea

„Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.“

—  Conrad Aiken American novelist and poet 1889 - 1973

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

„I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!“

—  Dorothea Mackellar Poet 1885 - 1968

Zdroj: The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

„To live in such a place was, for Isabel, to hold to her ear all day a shell of the sea of the past. This vague eternal rumour kept her imagination awake.“

—  Henry James, kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.

„He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.“

—  Tracy Chevalier American writer 1962

Zdroj: Girl With A Pearl Earring

„Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,
And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng
Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.“

—  James Russell Lowell, The Present Crisis

St. 6
The Present Crisis (1844)
Kontext: Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,
Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?
Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,
And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng
Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.

„O sea-bird, beautiful upon the tides,
White as the moon is when the night abides,
Or snow untouched, whose dustless splendour glows
Bright as a sunbeam and whose white wing throws
A glove of challenge on the salt sea-flood.“

—  Dafydd ap Gwilym Welsh poet 1320 - 1380

Yr wylan deg ar lanw dioer
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fel haul, dyrnfol, heli.
"Yr Wylan" (To the Sea-gull), line 1; translation from Robert Gurney (ed. and trans.) Bardic Heritage (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969) p. 130.
Originál: (cy) Yr wylan deg ar lanw dioer<br/>Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,<br/>Dilwch yw dy degwch di,<br/>Darn fel haul, dyrnfol, heli.

„Broad-based upon her people’s will,
And compass'd by the inviolate sea.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892

To the Queen, st. 9 (1851)

„The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.“

—  Rachel Carson American marine biologist and conservationist 1907 - 1964

„For nature beats in perfect tune,
And rounds with rhyme her every rune,
Whether she work in land or sea,
Or hide underground her alchemy.
Thou canst not wave thy staff in air,
Or dip thy paddle in the lake,
But it carves the bow of beauty there,
And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

Woonotes II, st. 7
1840s, Poems (1847)

„A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.“

—  George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham English statesman and poet 1628 - 1687

Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)

„On the bank of the Nile opposite Old Cairo is the place known as The Garden, which is a pleasure park and promenade, containing many beautiful gardens, for the people of Cairo are given to pleasure and amusements. I witnessed a fete once in Cairo for the sultan's recovery from a fractured hand; all the merchants decorated their bazaars and had rich stuffs, ornaments and silken fabrics hanging in their shops for several days.“

—  Ibn Battuta Moroccan explorer 1304 - 1377

Travels in Asia and Africa (Rehalã of Ibn Battûta)

„Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Bones

Zdroj: City of Bones

„They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea“

—  William Ross Wallace American poet 1819 - 1881

What rules the World? (also known by The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World) reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919).
Kontext: They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers than he;
But a mighty power and stronger,
Man from his throne hath hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

„This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.“

—  Alessandro Baricco, kniha Ocean Sea

Zdroj: Ocean Sea

„Ah, ah,
Beautiful is the mother.
Ah, ah,
Beautiful is her son.“

—  Sufjan Stevens American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1975

"Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle"
Lyrics, The Age of Adz (2010)

„Lacan conceives the difference between the two deaths as the difference being real (biological) death and its symbolization, the settling of accounts the accomplishment of symbolic destiny (deathbed confession in Catholicism, for example). This gap can be filled in various ways; it can contain either sublime beauty or fearsome monsters: in Antigone's case, her symbolic death, her exclusion from the symbolic community of the city, precedes her actual death and imbues her character with sublime beauty, whereas the ghost of Hamlet's father represents the opposite case, - actual death unaccompanied by symbolic death, without a settling of accounts - which is why he returns as a frightful apparition until his debt has been repaid. This place between the two deaths, a place of sublime beauty as well as terrifying monsters, is the site of das Ding, of the real-traumatic Kernel in the midst of symbolic order.“

—  Slavoj Žižek, kniha The Sublime Object of Ideology

150
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)

„I only saw her as she pass'd —
A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes
Lay all the loves of Paradise.“

—  Joaquin Miller American judge 1837 - 1913

IV, p. 25.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Kontext: I only saw her as she pass'd —
A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes
Lay all the loves of Paradise....
You shall not know her — she who sat
Unconscious in my heart all time
I dream'd and wove this wayward rhyme,
And loved and did not blush thereat.

„The "great things" are nothing less than that she became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed upon her as pass man's understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among whom she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in Heaven, and such a child. She herself is unable to find a name for this work, it is too exceedingly great; all she can do is break out in the fervent cry: "They are great things," impossible to describe or define. Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God. No one can say anything greater of her or to her, though he had as many tongues as there are leaves on the trees, or grass in the fields, or stars in the sky, or sand by the sea. It needs to be pondered in the heart, what it means to be the Mother of God.“

—  Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546

Commentary on the Magnificat (Das Magnificat), A.D. 1521
<cite>Luther's Works</cite>, American Edition, vol. 21, p. 326, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan, Concordia Publishing House, 1956. ISBN 057006421X