Fires

Famous quotes containing the word fires:

    And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Vanquished, led in irons, consumed by regrets, burnt by more fires than I ever lit.
    Jean Racine (1639–1699)

    The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no doubt, of the frequent fires in Maine, of which we hear so much on smoky days in Massachusetts.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)