Representing Long Island

Famous quotes containing the words representing, long and/or island:

    He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    The grapes
    that need frost to ripen them
    are amber and grow deep in the
    hedge, half-concealed,
    the way your beauty grows in long tendrils
    half in darkness.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

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