Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or birds:
“When the sea dries up you can see its depths, but when a person dies you will still not know his mind.”
—Chinese proverb.
“poems direct as what the birds said,
hard as a floor, sound as a bench,
mysterious as the silence when the tailor
would pause with his needle in the air.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)