Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Edwin Thumboo, The Best of Edwin Thumboo Quotes: OnceThere was a quiet island, With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon.
         

OnceThere was a quiet island, With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon.


Edwin Thumboo, The Best of Edwin Thumboo
Check all other quotes by Edwin Thumboo, The Best of Edwin Thumboo

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





OnceThere was a quiet island, With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon.
         



Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Edwin Thumboo, The Best of Edwin Thumboo Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Mon. 25 Nov. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/OnceThere-was-a-quiet-island-With-a-158334>.





Check out



Other quotes you may like


Would you like to take away the person? Or would you like to take away the heart?

Would you like to take away the person? Or would you like to take away the heart?




All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.

All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.



My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.



An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.

An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.



Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.



God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.



Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.



Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.



We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "OnceThere was a quiet island, With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon.". Author of this quote is Edwin Thumboo, The Best of Edwin Thumboo. This quote is about poem, singapore, poetry, edwin-thumboo, singapore-poet, poet, singapore-pioneer-poet,.