Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:
“O none but gods have power their love to hide,
Affection by the countnance is descride.
The light of hidden fire it selfe discovers,
And love that is conceald, betraies poore lovers.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
“While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.”
—Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910)
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