Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

    Do they know they’re old,
    These two who are my father and my mother
    Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
    Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

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