Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

    “The host is rushing ‘twixt night and day,
    And where is there hope or deed as fair?
    Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
    And Niamh calling Away, come away.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When the swift iron burning bee
    Drained the wild honey of their youth.”
    —Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

    “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)