Who do you want to share this breathtaking view with when seeing the sea for the first time
Let us immerse ourselves in the vast ocean, drown in the boundless blue, and feel the infinite romance described by literati.
📸 Waves of azure roll and gleam with delicate radiance. — Pushkin
🌊 Some in this world know not the sea, nor love it. Others know the sea but dare not love it. — Shen Congwen, "Eight Steeds"
🌅 One day I just wanted to keep swimming, I wanted to swim until the sea turned blue. — Yu Hua
🌴 Whenever I see the ocean, I long to talk to someone. And when I long to talk, I yearn to see the ocean again. — Haruki Murakami
🍹 My life is but a gentle madness. Eyes full of sea, yet I refuse to turn blue. — Rimbaud
🥥 Living next to the sea, neighbors with endless blue, yet no wall divides us. Owning nothing, yet possessing everything. — Yu Guangzhong
🌬️ Amid gentle, slow waves, you nestle against the sea as if with me. — Yevtushenko
🔆 Whenever I gaze at the ocean, I want to talk to someone. But when I talk, I crave the sea again. — Haruki Murakami
🏄 Please greet the lovely, warm sun for me, and the tranquil sea. — Chekhov
𓆞🌊 The bay, a blue palm, cradles sunken ships and islands. — Hai Zi
𓂂𓏸𓇼𓈒 First, I loved the sea. Then, I loved you—carrying the sea’s essence, yet with a playfulness the sea could never have. — Wang Guozhen
🧚🏻♀️ Mountains and forests swear no oaths to the seasons, flourishing and fading as they will. The ocean needs no promises to the shore, meeting and parting in joy. — Jane Zhen
🌊 Eternal waves lap at the edges of the universe—so much light, so much clarity. — Yu Guangzhong
🔆 I need an embrace as certain as the wind, and a kiss like the sea. — Cernuda
🌊 The moon loves the sea, and the sea loves the moon. — Liu Bannong
💞
The bay,
a blue palm,
cradles sunken ships and islands.
Hai Zi | "Wedding at Sea"
🌴
Mountains and forests swear no oaths to the seasons,
flourishing and fading as they will.
The ocean needs no promises to the shore,
meeting and parting in joy.
Jane Zhen | "Ocean Vows"
🔆
Amid soft, slow waves,
you nestle against the sea as if with me.
/ Yevtushenko
🚏 Location
📸 Eternal waves
lap at the edges of the cosmos—
so much light,
so much clarity.
Yu Guangzhong | "Nine Beds"
📸
The sea is free,
having passed through many temples
to claim the color of the sky.
— Gu Cheng
🌊 I know what freedom is. Perhaps freedom is not wanting to possess the sea, but to become the sea.
— Kuso, "Leaping into Mountains and Seas"
🌈 Mountains teach me that all choices are connected. The sea teaches me that all destinies rise and fall.
— Kuso, "Leaping into Mountains and Seas"
🌬️ Please greet the lovely, warm sun for me, and the tranquil sea.
— Chekhov
🏄 The true self is like the sea under moonlight—vast, quiet, but when you try to show it to others, all you capture is a blur of darkness.
— "The Daughter of Time"
🥥 My life is but a gentle madness. Eyes full of sea, yet I refuse to turn blue.
— Rimbaud
🍹 Nothing can stop you—not the best days, not the quiet days, not even the raging sea.
— Mark Strand, "The Story of Our Lives"
🌈 I need an embrace as certain as the wind, and a kiss like the sea.
— Cernuda
📸 One day I just wanted to keep swimming,
I wanted to swim until the sea turned blue.
— Yu Hua
🌴 Loneliness is like the sea,
and life is an island within it.
This island has rocks of longing,
vegetation of dreams, flowers of solitude,
and a spring of desire.
— Gibran
🏃 I dare not speak your name.
If someone asks of my sorrow:
say it’s the longing of distant seas,
say it’s the melancholy of autumn’s solitude.
— Dai Wangshu, "Sorrow"
🌈 The ancients said:
Spring tides merge with the sea, the moon rises with the waves.
Who comes from mountains, rivers, and seas,
yet is confined to days, nights, kitchens, and love?
Finding solace in mountains and seas.
Perhaps becoming an adult
is just like this.
Be a sailor of the world,
bound for every port.
— Whitman
🌅 Days are a maze of hesitations,
and we are those who walk away.
Our shadows scatter like endless clouds,
blown apart by the west wind.
A rose tirelessly becomes another rose.
You are the cloud, the sea, oblivion.
You are also every self you’ve ever lost.
— Borges
📸 My life is but a gentle madness.
Eyes full of sea, yet I refuse to turn blue.
— Rimbaud
🚏 So many words and memories
dissolve in a smile.
We enter the night sea
to salvage lost stars.
— Gu Cheng, "Poetic Sentiment"