Flames

Famous quotes containing the word flames:

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

    “Sole and self-commanded works,
    Fears not undermining days,
    Grows by decays,
    And, by the famous might that lurks
    In reaction and recoil,
    Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Out of a grave I come to tell you this,
    Out of a grave I come to quench the kiss
    That flames upon your forehead with a glow
    That blinds you to the way that you must go.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)