Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. – Quran

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. – W. H. Auden

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe. – Joseph W. Beach