Fire Island Pines

Famous quotes containing the words fire, island and/or pines:

“his lips meet mine, and a flood
Of sweet fire sweeps across me, so I drown
Against him, die and find death good.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)