Salt Spring Island

Famous quotes containing the words salt, spring and/or island:

    “When the salt sheet broke in a storm of singing
    The voices of all the drowned swam on the wind.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “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)