I've been looking for quotes or poems about the sea - thinking I would like to finish off these silly boards with some gilt text. It has been much harder than I thought to find something I like. Then, I thought of Kate Chopin's book, The Awakening.
"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clearing, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."
The famous story. She is married to someone who drains her spirit; she has an affair; she swims out to sea at the end of the book (sorry to ruin it...) and never returns. A suicide in the deep. But I want to say I remember her sense of freedom in that - so...could I use the quotes and look at them as positive? Or would it be depressing?
“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”
There is simple passion there, too.
“The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension. They were leaning toward each other as the water oaks bent from the sea. There was not a particle of earth beneath their feet. Their heads might have been turned upside down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether.”
I read it ten years ago. I'm thinking of reading it again. Not quite related - I met someone once who had a mother with a history of depression. One day, her mother filled her pockets with rocks and walked out into the sea. She did live.
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