Felix Riesenberg quotes

“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.”
-- Felix Riesenberg

Source : Felix Riesenberg (1926). “Vignettes of the Sea”

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“No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.”
-- Felix Riesenberg

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“The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.”
-- Felix Riesenberg

Source : "Living Again: An Autobiography".

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“An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.”
-- Felix Riesenberg

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“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”

Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”

“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”

Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”

“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”

“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”