Island Rail Road

Famous quotes containing the words island, rail and/or road:

    ““Our island home
    Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.””
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
    Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
    Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
    stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “By the road to the contagious hospital
    under the surge of the blue
    mottled clouds driven from the
    northwest—a cold wind.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)