But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...
Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
--
Gebir, Book I (1798). Compare: "Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed/ Mysterious union with his native sea", William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book iv. Wordsworth's prompted Landor to comment, "Poor shell! that Wordsworth so pounded and flattened in his marsh it no longer had the hoarseness of a sea, but of a hospital", Walter Savage Landor, Letter to John Forster.Walter Savage Landor
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The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
Gao Xingjian
He murmurs near the running brooks
A music sweeter than their own.William Wordsworth
I am to express..the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.William Collins
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Gaston Bachelard
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