Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

    What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

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

    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)