Quotes Tagged With :burns

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death....

A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets....

The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into....

Give me a number between one and ten.”“Two.”“Forget that, then. Between five and ten.”“Seven.”“That’s....

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake....

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You....

He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement,....

That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

There was something strangely compelling about a Japanese guy with lamb-chop sideburns and a voice so....

Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.