Rhode Island State

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or state:

    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 met a traveler from Arkansas
    Who boasted of his state as beautiful
    For diamonds and apples.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)