Flames

Famous quotes containing the word flames:

“The more people gathering firewood, the higher the flames will grow.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)

“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)