Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

    “Their beauty sets them aside
    from other men and from women
    unless a woman has that cold fire in her
    called poet....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
    Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)