"Years ago in the night / there were words in the sounds of the wind, / words in the sound of the sea. / I would wake in the night and know / that they spoke to me." - Archibald MacLeish, Return To The Island, 1985

"For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea." - e. e. cummings, Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, 1956