Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

“The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;
The good red fires were burning bright in every ‘longshore home;
The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;
And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)