HE WHO SITS BY THE SHORE DOESN'T KNOW THE SEA.

Le chef oriental (Oriental Chief) Georges Rochegrosse

O DEATHLESS SEA / irene by simon harsent / the invading surf by frederick judd waugh / the mediterranean in the ancient world by fernand braudel (trans. siân reynolds) / stormy sea by ivan konstantinovich aivazovsky / dancing in odessa by ilya kaminsky / i lived the beloved name by odysseus elytis (trans. olga broumas & t. begley) / strong winds and high tides battered a coastal road close to newtownards, northern ireland by peter morrison /  shipwreck off the cliffs of dover at night with dover castle in the distance by eugène lepoittevin / the odyssey, book 13 by homer (trans. emily wilson) / seebild by ingo kühl

Ayşegül Savaş, Walking on the Ceiling (via smokefalls)

"Rough sea" by Giovanni Allievi

Maya C. Popa, from “Wittgenstein in the Palisades”, American Faith

— J. Karl Bogartte, A Curious Night for a Double Eclipse

Beautiful America’s Oregon Coast, 1999

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Part I (1808), as quoted in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita (1967)

— Gwendolyn MacEwen, from “Memoirs of a Mad Cook,” The Armies of the Moon (Macmillan, 1972)

— Nina MacLaughlin, from “All This Blood and Love”, The Paris Review (via voirlvmer)

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

— Maria Takolander, from “Lullaby,” Addressed to Anne Sexton, Trigger Warning

‘Extermination of Mongolian Ships’, Kyosai Kawanabe, 1863 

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, ‘Pharaoh’ by Lucia Perill (via decreation)