immenseness

''may you still stand by th ocean and feel small''

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
* e. e. cummings

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
*Charles Gounod

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
*Ambrose Bierce