Island Nights

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)

    It needed the heavy nights of drenching weather
    To make him return to people, to find among them
    Whatever it was that he found in their absence,
    A pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)