Famous quotes containing the words island and/or nights:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I remember
a dream two nights ago: the voice,
‘the artist must
create himself or be born again.’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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