Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

“The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“A certain minor light may still
Leap incandescent

Out of kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then—”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)