Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

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

    “Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
    Bring me my Arrows of desire:
    Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
    Bring me my Chariot of fire!

    I will not cease from Mental Fight,
    Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
    Till we have built Jerusalem
    In England’s green & pleasant Land.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to
    the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)