Now the great winds shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.4^7.

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.35^8.

A God, a God their severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'To MargueriteöContinued', l.22^4.

Everywhere the sea is a teacher of truth. I am not sure that the best thing I find in sailing is not this salt of reality.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
c.1910  The Cruise of the Nona.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis19:26.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:13.

Let yourspeech be alway withgrace, seasoned withsalt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Colossians 4:6.

   And because I was a poet, and because the public praised me, With their critical deductions for the modern writer's fault; I could sit at rich men's tables,öthough the courtesies that raise me, Still suggested clear between us, the pale spectrum of the salt.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Lady Geraldine's Courtship', stanza 9.

I don't trust anybody who's never eaten bread with the salt of tears.

-Kaiko,Takeshi
  'The Laughing Stock', in Five Thousand Runaways (translated by Cecilia Segawa Seigle).

Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache wasölike eating an egg without salt.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  The Story of the Gadsbys,'Poor Dear Mamma'.

   Addito salis grano. With the addition of a pinch of salt.

-Pliny full name  GaiusPlinius Secundus known as  the Elder
AD 77  Historia Naturalis, bk.23, section 8.This is probably a version of a more ancient proverb, commonly rendered 'cum grano salis'.

You will see Coleridgeöhe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despairö A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owlsö You will see Huntöone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isöa tomb.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' l.202^11.

A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

-Swift,Jonathan
  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

Alone until she dies,Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Under MilkWood.