Heard Island

Famous quotes containing the words heard and/or island:

“But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Me thoughts, I heard one calling, ‘Child!’
And I replied, ‘My Lord.’”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)