30 phrases of poems about the sea that will make you feel the breeze of the waves

I need the sea because it teaches me: I don’t know if I learn music or conscience, I don’t know if it’s just a wave or being deep or just a hoarse voice or a dazzling supposition of fish and ship.

Pablo Neruda

Man wants to get wet in pure water, in the elemental wind, and he can only return to his own well.

Pablo Neruda

There are women who bring the sea in their eyes, not for the color, but for the vastness of the soul and bring poetry in their fingers and smiles. They are beyond time as if the tide would never take them from the beach where they were happy.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

The heroic breath of the sea has its secret pole, which men feel, seduced and fearful.

Cecília Meireles

The sea is just sea, devoid of attachments, killing itself and recovering, running like a blue bull by its own shadow, and charging bravely against anyone, and then being the pure shadow of itself.

Cecília Meireles

I put my dream on a ship and the ship on the sea; – then, I opened the sea with my hands, for my dream to shipwreck.

Cecília Meireles

O salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal! For crossing you, how many mothers cried, how many children prayed in vain! How many brides were left unmarried! That you should be ours, oh sea!

Fernando Pessoa

God gave danger and the abyss to the sea, but in it he mirrored the sky.

Fernando Pessoa

They sing in me, oh master sea, entering the wide channels that are in my bones, of yours that are like master waves, that return to you again in a united, single and mixed sea of my mouth.

Vinicius de Moraes

I sit, sea, listening to you. Would you sit down, sea, to listen to me?

Vinicius de Moraes

Only people die and leave and never come back. But there is the mistake, nothing comes back, not even the waves of the sea come back; the water is another in each wave.

Rachel de Queiroz

The world is big and it fits in this window over the sea. The sea is big and fits in the bed and mattress to love. Love is big and fits in the brief space of kissing.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

In the waves of the beach, in the waves of the sea I want to be happy, I want to drown. (…) I want to be happy in the waves of the sea. I want to forget everything. I want to rest.

Manuel Bandeira

Here on this rock, someone sat down to look at the sea. The sea did not stop to be looked at. It was sea to all sides.

Paulo Leminski

Very romantic. My peaceful spot is in the Atlantic.

Paulo Leminski

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is high, the moon is fair. Over the straits; on the French coast the light shines and disappears; the cliffs of England rise, shimmering and vast, in the quiet bay.

Matthew Arnold

In that shoreless ocean, at your silent listening smile, my songs would swell into melodies, free as waves, free from all bondage of words.

Rabindranath Tagore

I went to visit the sea. The mermaids in the basement came out to look at me.

Emily Dickinson

She has been found! Who? Eternity. It is the sea mixed with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud

Timeless sea breezes, night sea wind: you come to no one; if someone wakes up, he must be prepared how to survive you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where’s your tribal memory? Gentlemen, in that gray vault. The sea. The sea locked them away. The sea is history.

Derek Walcott

The Ocean has its silent caves. Deep, quiet and alone. While there is fury in the waves, beneath them there is none.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Calmly the weary sailors rest under their own blue sea. The solitudes of the ocean are blessed, for there is purity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In a sea of strangers, you yearned to meet me. His life spent sailing along my shores. The arms that yearn to hold me one day will ache under the heavy oars.

Lang Leav

Time is a testament to the relentless, unyielding power of this ancient love. A love I will take with me, from ages to oceans to inches, back to you.

Lang Leav