Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink

In contrast, Tilda Swinton quietly went to a studio in the Scottish Highlands, near the beach where she walks her dogs, and delivered the most famous lines from the poem – “Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink” – with a crystalline calm that pulls at the poem’s despair.

Options for classes this year included offerings such as “Tales from the Genome: ������ Will Your Future Bring?” and “Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink,” which is Duckworth’s class.

Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.

“Searching the administrative record’s reams of pages for some explanation as to why the navy’s activities were authorized by the National Marine Fisheries Service,” she wrote, “this court feels like the sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner who, trapped for days on a ship becalmed in the middle of the ocean, laments, ‘Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink’.”

“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink”