Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

“Being innocent, he dreaded that he died
Hating his God, but what he was was plain:
An old kind man brave in his burning pride.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“mourn

The majesty and burning of the child’s death.
I shall not murder
The mankind of her going with a grave truth
Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“The rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)