Burnt

Famous quotes containing the word burnt:

    “So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
    They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown’d.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “We are sheep in a herd of sheep,
    but Clytemnestra, Electra and Death
    are burnt like star-names in the sky.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Time drops in decay,
    Like a candle burnt out,
    And the mountains and woods
    Have their day, have their day....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)