Famous quotes containing the words island and/or light:
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (15611626)
“But no. Too soon I voun my charm abroke.
Noo comely soul in white like her
Noo soul a-steppen light like her
An nwone o comely height like her
Went by; but all my grief agean awoke.”
—William Barnes (18011886)