Few people saw life as Ernest Hemingway did. A restless spirit drawn to the risk-takers and the courageous, Hemingway understood probably better than any writer man’s essential nature. Here are several quotations from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea about growing old and being tough.

The Devil would invade us, and he knows our weak points! Beware!

An Ode to the beach. I grew up in Cannes, and feel it is a very importent part of all our lives. All the people who have lived next to the beach will understand this poem I have written straight from my heart.

Megan has a greedy aunt who is very fat and will not spare a penny to anyone. This is about the fall of Megan’s Aunt.

A fisherman was in desperate need for money to pay his debt, but he managed to pay his debtor by the good luck of a catch.

Only one of the ten lepers cleansed came back to thank the Lord, but where were the nine? Similarly, where were the disciples when Jesus was on the cross? And where are you? Are you among the thankful few?

At the stroke of midnight it became the sixteenth of June the first and best day of the fishing season.

A tribute to fishermen. Inspired by the BBC TV’s series “Trawlermen”.

The story of a lobster man who just may have figured out one of the better ways to spend a life by the sea.

A tale of life on the river.