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)

“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)

“As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)