World Ocean Database

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or ocean:

    “In a world of universal poverty
    The philosophers alone will be fat
    Against the autumn winds
    In an autumn that will be perpetual.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
    What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
    What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
    What are deep? The ocean and truth.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)