Sea

Sea

A sea is a large body of saline water that may be connected with an ocean or may be a large saline lake that, like the Caspian Sea, lacks a natural outlet. Sometimes the terms sea and ocean are used synonymously.

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Famous quotes containing the word sea:

    “When the sea dries up you can see its depths, but when a person dies you will still not know his mind.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “All night your moth-breath
    Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
    A far sea moves in my ear.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “The sea curling,
    Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still
    As at first it was, is the hand no yet contented
    Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin.”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)