Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

“The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Mind not the old man beseeching the young man;
Let not the child’s voice be heard, nor the mother’s entreaties;
Make even the trestles to shake the dead, where they lie awaiting
the hearses,
So strong you thump, O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)