I need the sea because it teaches me,
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness,
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence,
or only its harsh voice or its shining
suggestion of fishes and ships.
The fact is that until I fall asleep,
in some magnetic way I move in
the university of the waves.

-Pablo Neruda, The Sea

I feel peace when I read Neruda's "On the Blue Shore of Silence" poems. I imagine the beach at night: an ink jet ocean, ripples of moon reflected in the water.