Island Nights

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or nights:

    “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 (1561–1626)

    “Alone and alone nine nights I lay
    Between two bushes under the rain;
    I thought to have whistled her down that way,
    I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.
    Oro, oro!
    To-morrow night I will break down the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)