Burst

Famous quotes containing the word burst:

“No burst of nuclear phenomenon
That put an end to what was going on
Could make much difference to the dead and gone.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“It was so old a ship—who knows, who knows?
MAnd yet so beautiful, I watched in vain
To see the mast burst open with a rose,
And the whole deck put on its leaves again.”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)