They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their own lives
desire to attain the seventh degree of concentration
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Land-thieves and water-thieves are the same flesh and blood.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. I've stood on the bridge for eighteen hours in a typhoon. Life here is stormier; but I can stand it.
MANGAN [writhing but yielding]. How you can have the face-the heart-[he breaks down and is heard sobbing as she takes him out].
The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
been longing all her life for someone to break it. At last she has become afraid she has none to break.
seafaring man: you will be bothered with him only three weeks in the year, perhaps.
