Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

    His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    He is keeping a candle burning in a shrine
    where nobody comes,
    there must be some mystery
    in the air
    about him.
    I am almost afraid to think to myself,
    why,
    he is there.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    The principal saloon was the Howlin’ Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, “We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)