Cane Island

Famous quotes containing the words cane and/or island:

    “But a blind man’s cane poking, however clumsily, into the inmost corners of the house.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)