Oar Quotes

• I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Dream
  • Silent
  • Rhyme

• But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heaven
  • Sail
  • Coast

• Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Dark
  • Son
  • Rhythm

• To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Breathe
  • Boat
  • Lifting

• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Security
  • Common
  • Hug

• Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Boat
  • Currents
  • Rowing

• It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

  

  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
  • Focus
  • Boat
  • Oar