Primer 21 — POETRY? WITH MOLLUSCS · CURATED BY MICHAEL MCINNIS
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Quotations from various sources under Fair Use clause.
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Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré, published Paris: La Librairie Illustrée, 1885-1891. oldbookillustrations.com
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And we still have the sea, just possibly too big to fail. “Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother,” wrote Walt Whitman, whose truest poetry so often evoked the sea. Let’s join with Byron: “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll!”
John Zerzan. excerpts from The Sea
Let me tell you about the sea.
The way it mutinies against the sky,
swallows the stars
and washes away an aphotic night.
— Michael McInnis, Secret Histories
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
— Albert Camus
The ship-worm, has, by its destructive powers, ruined the noblest vessels, and rendered useless the timbers, on which many of the constructions in harbours mainly depend for security; on this account great attention has been bestowed on its natural history and habits. The barnacle, which attaches itself to the bottoms of ships, renders the planks so foul, as to interfere materially with the rate of sailing of the vessel itself. These are only a few of the useful and noxious qualities of these inhabitants of the deep.
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