# Quote — Pat Conroy, South of Broad

> The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Book: [South of Broad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/south-of-broad.md)
- Page: 80
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy#South_of_Broad_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/south-of-broad/the-tide-was

## More from this book

> You must appreciate beauty for it to endure [...]

p. 503 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/south-of-broad/you-must-appreciate.md)

> I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

p. 503 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/south-of-broad/i-take-account.md)

> Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

p. 486 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/south-of-broad/humanity-is-best.md)