The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

- H. M. Tomlinson

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

- H. M. Tomlinson

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to n…

- H. M. Tomlinson

There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

- H. M. Tomlinson

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

- H. M. Tomlinson

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

- H. M. Tomlinson

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

- H. M. Tomlinson

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. I…

- H. M. Tomlinson

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as…

- H. M. Tomlinson