Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

“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)

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)