Famous quotes containing the words burnt and/or alive:
“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)
“But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)