Open Ocean

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or ocean:

“A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“your old fashioned tirade—
loving, rapid, merciless—
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)