• All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us.

    John Cheever: All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and
 shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish
 smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple
 further out and the joy of distances and the roar of
 falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't
 come out of the sea for all of us.
    John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Complete Novels”