Old age is a shipwreck.
quote by Charles de Gaulle
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Shipwreck Water
The rain dropped down at 7:20
so suddenly wasted water
harsh memories no matter how deeply buried
survive, they emerge
all my betrayed water runs
between soles of her feet
their average is torn
Normandy
wait, wait, fulfill your destiny's secret
try to find, try to find
no fear till the end of crime
that day in 1944
and a shipwreck water
Lou Ann lost her father
Lou Ann and her daughter walks from the crosses for whom they've never known
the caretaker wipes the marble face with wet sand to bring out the letters
Sometimes the faces on the marble reflect only a picture of a dark haired man in spectacles
wait, wait, fulfill our destiny's secrets
try to find, try to find
no fear till the end of crime
the day in 1944
and a shipwreck water
Lou Ann lost her father
and a shipwreck water
Lou Ann never knew her father
father, father
rain dropped down at 7:20 as we watched
harsh memories no matter how deeply buried
all my betrayed water runs
between soles of her feet
their average is torn
Normandy
and a shipwreck water
Lou Ann lost her father
and a shipwreck water
Lou Ann never knew her father, father
song performed by by Nine Days
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No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
quote by Pablo Picasso
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The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
quote by Thomas More
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
quote by Jean Anouilh
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
quote by Josef Skvorecky
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I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
quote by Philip Dunne
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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An Early Morning Oat Meal
an early morning oat meal
is like poetry
it warms the heart
fills an empty stomach
makes you
move smoothly
for another day
like a survivor of
another day's shipwreck
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
quote by Guy de Maupassant
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Absinthe
I was a non-believer in exodus
of nothingness.
Here you are,
I am.
In crimson sky
talking of nobody, unbuttoning the moon.
Fill up my glass
with tears of joy.
And sleep I must
in the arms of sorrow.
There was a shipwreck in absence
while chasing the eyes.
poem by Satish Verma
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
quote by Willa Cather
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