Flames

Famous quotes containing the word flames:

“For while my former flames remain within,
Repentance is but want of power to sin.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“And songs climb out of the flames of the near campfires,
Pale, pastel things exquisite in their frailness
With a note or two to indicate it isn’t lost,
On them at least. The songs decorate our notion of the world
And mark its limits, like a frieze of soap-bubbles.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?”
—William James (1842–1910)