Famous quotes containing the words living and/or island:
“A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slugs a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
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