Assos: On the "Wine-Dark Sea"

"Grey-eyed Athena sent them a favorable wind, 

a gentle breeze singing over the wine-dark sea."

--Homer

"The sea--this truth must be confessed--has no generosity. No display of manly qualities--courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
--Joseph Conrad

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 

Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. 

On such a full sea are we now afloat. 

And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
--William Shakespeare

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
--Joseph Conrad

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
--Khalil Gibran